Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“no matter where you go there you are;" "all is possible and improbable are most;" "are you having a bizarre out-wig?” — Respectively High School Physics Teacher Husband's Twelve Year Old Grand Daughter Copy Share Image
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
“Be improbable beautiful. Live your life with passion and purpose.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Nothing is impossible no matter how improbable, all things can be done before the rising sun!” — Misti Renea Neely Copy Share Image
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is!… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Live life while you have it; the fact that you have it is highly improbable, the fact that you will lose it… — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable… — Jonathan Littell Copy Share Image
It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I thought of New York as a free city, like one of those prewar nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude.… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible. — Tessa Jowell Copy Share Image
“I know that history will be dominated by an improbable event, I just don't know what that event will be.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do. — Craig L. Rice Copy Share Image
It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat. — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
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