Justin Cartwright Quotes

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture, and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.

We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

Maybe nothing will ever change for us,” he said. “But don’t you want to be around just in case it does?

Honestly I'm excited about the possibilities of what comes next, and the funny thing is, that is sort of what "Star Wars" is kind of about. I mean, I remember being 10 years old and seeing that movie and leaving the theater and feeling like, oh, my God, anything is possible. And I feel like anything is possible right now. I don't know what's next, but I look forward to it.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

In the contradiction lies the hope.

The only laws are paradox, humor and change.

Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

As long as nothing happens anything is possible.

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.

The manger dares us to believe the best is yet to be. And it could all begin today.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

We live in a world where joy is possible, love is possible, happiness is possible; where all things are possible, if we're willing to take the time, take a chance, take a breath and step off the edge of everything that is for the sake of everything that might be.

There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning. To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world.

And maybe, just maybe, it will.

We have to recognize we've got some big problems on race, just like we got still big problems on crime, just like we got big problems on just about everything. But we also have to make sure that we've - draw confidence from the progress that we have made, 'cause otherwise, you get into this cycle of cynicism.