Unlikely Quotes · Page 5

“The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.”

— Hilary Mantel

“It made no sense, but I always wanted to create a home, even in the most unlikely places.”

— Wafaa Bilal

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

— Edward de Bono

What we are unlikely to do as a leading brand space is just buy revenue or partnership with hotels.

— Ritesh Agarwal

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

— Jeanette Winterson

The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

— Paul Arden

If someone is choosing between joining McKinsey or your startup it's very unlikely they're going to work out at the startup.

— Sam Altman

Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.

— Gail Z. Martin

We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely…

— Gerald Bard Tjoflat

I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're…

— Teddy Thompson

I'm a single guy now and can do what I like. As my agent said, so long as it's not a live…

— Steve Coogan

“She considered hypothesis 3 to be quite unlikely, since she didn’t feel the least bit psychopathic, but included it in the list…

— Neal Stephenson

I'm always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them…

— Chellie Pingree

“They were such an unlikely couple and there is such power in the relationship that never takes place in a permanent way,…

— Jill McCorkle

Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute--…

— Joanna Baillie

“It really doesn’t pay to go back and look again at the things that once delighted you, because it’s unlikely they will…

— Bill Bryson

Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in…

— Michael Specter

As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moraldevelopment, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the…

— James P Comer

The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been…

— Rachel Joyce

... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did…

— Michelle Alexander

We did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But,…

— James Comey

Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the…

— Stefan Zweig

Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited…

— Patrick Rothfuss

At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my…

— Jack Nicholson

with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

— Cassandra Clare

I told him last Monday that I felt the way things were going it was unlikely that I would be able to…

— Lucinda Creighton

A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.

— Dan Bucatinsky

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

— John Major

My dream is to try to reach as many kids and readers who might need an unlikely hero to connect to.

— Tim Federle

How funny it is that the most unlikely person sometimes becomes your ally.

— Simone Elkeles

My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.

— Karen Thompson Walker

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

— George Gaylord Simpson

It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.

— James MacDonald

When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time.

— Ashly Lorenzana

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

— Mary Douglas

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

— Tom Rath

You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.

— Kristin Cashore

Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel.

— David Platt

It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt