If success seems unlikely, that should be your reason to push even harder. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
I'm the most unlikely person when it comes to fashion. I don't really have much sense of it. — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.' — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place. — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
People of dua are optimistic by definition. They know that dua and thoughts like 'unlikely' or 'impossible' don't coexist. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world, and there's incredible acts of kindness and bravery and in the most… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
“But if you have an unmessianic sense of nondestiny, this is unlikely to be a problem: you won’t consider yourself important enough… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Making the New York Times' list is the kind of thing you don't even let yourself imagine because it seems so unlikely,… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“To me, the grounds for hope are simply that we don’t know what will happen next, and that the unlikely and the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I think it's quite unlikely that I'll be the leader of the Green party going into a future election if it's on… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted… — James Rowland Angell Copy Share Image
All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
One of my favorite sketches, and a popular comedy formula, is to put someone with a mental handicap in some kind of… — Bonnie McFarlane Copy Share Image
We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts… — Lilian Katz Copy Share Image
Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
John asked me to dance and I nearly died. Bingo! I then amazed myself by being very cool, calm and collected outwardly-inside… — Cynthia Lennon Copy Share Image
Two questions help us see why we are unlikely to get what we want by using punishment... The first question is: What… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
What is forgiving? Forgiving is giving up all claim on one who had hurt you and letting go of the emotional consequences… — Richard Walters Copy Share Image
When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns.… — Jeff Myers Copy Share Image
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you.… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The motto I have penned on my knuckles is that this is the best world we have--because it's the only world we… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational,… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit. — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image