
“Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 4
“Things happen. We had not wanted them to happen. They had arisen out of the ashes of chance.”
Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book One: A Fear of Love
“There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Source: Last Flight (1937), p. 70
Context: In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful "break" was apt to lurk just around the corner.
“You do realize how many impossible things have to be true for that to have happened?”
Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 29, “Alexei” (p. 187)
[Andy Rooney, w:Andy Rooney, 197, Labels, Years of Minutes, 2003, PublicAffairs, 978-1586482114]