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But at least it made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change.


Barbara Pym

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DARRELL CALKINS One with true creativity can erase their one past, and replace it with an infinite number of pasts, ...
LIONEL SUGGS Infinite possibilities are waiting for you to notice them.
STEVEN REDHEAD Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite depende...
RASHEED OGUNLARU As you reinvent your life endlessly you should open your minds to the infinite possibilities that do...
STEVEN REDHEAD As we reinvent our life endlessly we should open our minds to the infinite possibilities that do exi...
STEVEN REDHEAD When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, b...
ANDREW SHUE I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
RUDYARD KIPLING The beauty of life does not reside in certainty or conformity. It resides in the infinite possibilit...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Every atom has infinite possibilities. That means, since you're made of billions of atoms, you have ...
JOHN B. BEJO Well, it does make you realize that life, even at its longest, is still very short.
KAIRA ROUDA Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for in...
JACKIE GLEASON Life is full of endless possibilities.
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LYNN COTHREN Explore the infinite possibilities in existence.
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DEBBIANNE DEROSE All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for lif...
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JACKIE ROBINSON Education may not make a change of your life, it makes you ponder over at least.
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GEORGE POVEROMO Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you; then create within your reality the...
STEVEN REDHEAD I believe in dreams.
I believe infinite possibilities for the fulfillment of my dreams.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
GEORGE SAINTSBURY I didn't realize the possibilities. I got to see all parts of the country and made lasting friendshi...
JENN NATALE What if love and reality are big things, so big that we can only ever see a tiny bit and we think we...
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STEVEN VAN ZANDT Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to...
TRINIDAD HUNT You are born with infinite possibilities. Take responsibility for turning these possibilities into r...
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DARIN OLVER Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is ...
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DEYTH BANGER The committee has held hearings on climate change issues for nearly 30 years. The first one was in 1...
ELIZABETH MOLER However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they ha...
LEWIS MUMFORD However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they ha...
LEWIS MUMFORD The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and t...
GEORGE MULLER We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of infin...
ANDREW ADAMSON He's still got all the qualities and I try to bring him on for at least one hour.
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MARKUS ZUSAK Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir...
D.T. SUZUKI Logical thought, spiritual life, infinite love, deadly hate and you have a radical change.
EPHDAN Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
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BARBARA PYM She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one...
BARBARA PYM Yes, it seems that things like that should go on in London... It is better taste somehow that a man ...
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BARBARA PYM I think just a cup of tea...' There was something to be said for tea and a comfortable chat about cr...
BARBARA PYM Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.
BARBARA PYM Well, I haven't really anything to eat at home, I began, but then stopped, as I realised that a drea...
BARBARA PYM An atom has infinite possibilities. How many atoms does your hair have? Your hand? Your brain? You h...
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ROY T. BENNETT It was nice that he received that ovation. It seemed like the passing of the torch; I know Aaron hop...
DONALD DRIVER Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
CONRAD HALL In a universe with infinite possibilities why limit yourself—things could get worse.
CHRISTOPHER ZZENN LOREN Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possi...
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Know that the world really does revolve around You and You live in a world of infinite possibilities...
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ERIN FARWELL It made us realize that even with all the injuries, we're still able to do whatever we strive to do.
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DOMINIC RICCITELLO Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.
AHMET DAVUTOGLU Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
REX STOUT We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
JEANE KIRKPATRICK When you mind is made up, there's no point trying to change it, but YOU still have a choice.
REUBEN LOWE If one has to be right, then one has to be wrong, in a polarized world. Yes and no. But between yes ...
BRANDON W. JONES I’ve noticed that most of us don’t realize how important this moment is. They take it for grante...
LIDIYA K. People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had...
IMELDA MAY I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Wa...
JON SCIESZKA A blank page and time ignite infinite possibilities in a mind unyielding to boundaries.
ADRIENNE DIONNE It would take a big global shock to change the prospects for at least modest growth in Europe.
LORENZO CODOGNO I’m the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.
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LYMAN ABBOTT He'll probably still get bottles for at least a year.
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CARRIE HARMON In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finit...
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MELISSA LANDERS Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, instituti...
BRYANT MCGILL Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change; the change itself ...
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DANIEL DAY-LEWIS ...things happen when you least expect them. Things that can change your whole life.
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BARBARA KRUGER I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
BARBARA KRUGER I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation ...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
BARBARA KRUGER We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will ta...
BARBARA KOPPLE Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
BARBARA KOPPLE I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmakin...
BARBARA KOPPLE I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w...
BARBARA KOPPLE The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The first sentence of a book is a promise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the l...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of a...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact t...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER