When I was in the group homes, I saw some of the kids being moved into foster homes with the potential for adoption. I remember well asking a social worker if I could find a home, too. I was told I was 'too old' and 'no one wants to adopt a 16-year-old.' I felt hopeless and alone.
Angela Featherstone
HomeAlonePotentialRememberFind
Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.
Mark Udall
WorldTreatPotentialBetterUsed
President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash punitive regulations, create millions of jobs, and develop our most strategic geopolitical weapon: crude oil.
Harold Hamm
EnergyPotentialAmericaCreateOil
It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on your mind's screen?
Debra Granik
MindThinkingPotentialYouPlay
It is impossible to understand the financial health of big financial institutions and their potential impact on the market. They don't even understand it themselves.
Paul Singer
HealthImpossiblePotentialImpact
Unlike what most people think, entrepreneurs are not special people who know how to do special things that others don't. Entrepreneurs can be made, because we're all born with the potential - that special human quality - to create.
Michael Gerber
QualityPeopleThinkPotentialBorn
As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it's full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say 'uncle' and let it go and avoid a hit.
Mark Sanchez
BestI AmPotentialYouUnclePlay
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
Fernando Pessoa
SuccessPotentialGroundSuccessful
Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.
Chris Chocola
GreatPotentialCongressWayThrough
You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.
Nick Johnson
GreatPotentialYouLookPlaying
So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.
John Podesta
PeopleThinkPotentialThoughtYou
Any kid in the world can draw from strengths within - we all have the potential with that.
Lily James
WorldPotentialKidStrengthsWithin
If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.
Fareed Zakaria
SimplePastPotentialConsequences
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
Christopher Hampton
GoodBookPotentialYouRightFilm
Gucci has great potential worldwide. Since it's inception in 1921, the brand has had a big visibility and many followers.
Marco Bizzarri
GreatBrandPotentialGucciBigHad
The more you practice tolerating uncomfortable emotions, the more confident you'll become in your ability to tolerate the distress that may be necessary to reach your full potential.
Amy Morin
PracticePotentialConfidentReach
There's a certain kind of wrestling fan that will only like a certain style. They think that's the right way, and that's okay, but I'm not trying to impress those people. Those people are already kind of set in their ways. I'm trying to open the world to a different style, what pro-wrestling has the potential to be.
Kenny Omega
StylePeopleWorldThinkPotential
Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
Carlo Ratti
TimePotentialNewPrepareCocktail
Virtual reality is already affecting people on an emotional level much more than any other media, and it has the potential to scale: all you need is an attachment for your cellphone, and you can have this experience.
Chris Milk
ExperiencePeoplePotentialReality
Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential - and this is still the case. Our ill fortune has long been a matter of bad governance. And now things have changed.
Laurent Lamothe
ChildrenGreatPeoplePotentialBad
The financial crisis was linked to the fact that banks had excessive leverage and too many risky assets. The solution is not to try to dictate to banks what they can do or not do, but to require them to strengthen their capital to absorb potential losses and hold less risky assets.
John Paulson
PotentialFinancialSolutionCrisis
The government can take smart steps to give all kids the healthy start they need to reach their full potential.
Kirsten Gillibrand
GovernmentSmartStartPotential
Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.
C. Robert Kehler
OpinionPotentialImpactSecurity
The relevant question isn't, 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but, 'Is this character alive?'
Claire Messud
FriendCharacterMePotentialAlive
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