Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

I don't like something so fantasy-filled that I couldn't imagine it ever happening. I like things that could come true. That's how I conduct the show.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.

Overall, I adhere to the one guiding rule any author writing historical fiction should follow: whatever you describe has to be possible. It may not be common, obvious, or even all that probable, but it absolutely has to be possible.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

Nobody must keep a commitment to do impossible things.

I want to be very honest with members about what I can offer, and I don't want to run in a leadership campaign promising things that I know are unachievable or would be very impractical to try to introduce.

Pragmatism and romance are sort of opposites.

The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.

VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

It seemed really easy waving your hands around, it wouldn't make any difference if you were moving it left or right, but I wanted to do it realistically. I think you can tell if someone doesn't know what they're doing.

PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.

They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

To make something, you have to work within your abilities. Honestly assess what you can do and even more important, what can't you do.

What seems most likely is generally true.

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!