So even the most unlikely events have to take place…

None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that…

— Edmund Crispin

“An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.”

— Per Bak

Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred.

— Elie Wiesel

“The events of one’s life take place, take place. How often have I used this expression, and how often have I stopped to think…

— N. Scott Momaday

In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.

— Max Tegmark

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

— Bob Schaffer

With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.

— Carl Pomerance

“Unlikely waters may cover hopeful soil.”

— SPURGEON C H

If you can’t be happy at the prospect of lunch, you are unlikely to be happy about anything

— Robert Johnson

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were…

— Alain de Botton

Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years…

— Paul Goodman

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys,…

— Terry Pratchett

It's very unlikely you're a genius, but, if you're ready to work at it hard and you want to listen to music all the…

— Jon Gordon

God has often given His people favor in the sight of heathen masters (as Joseph and Daniel), and has magnified the sufficiency of His…

— Arthur W. Pink

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

— Mark Haddon