Improbable Quotes

156 quotes by 121 authors

You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the… — Jean Rhys
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible. — Aristotle
in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace. — Cormac McCarthy
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found… — Robert A. Heinlein
We are a people of improbable hope. — Barack Obama
One should always be a little improbable. — Oscar Wilde
She gave him a wan smile. "And then you came, Eragon. You and Saphira. After hope had deserted me and I was about to be… — Christopher Paolini
Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of… — Steven Pinker
The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane… — Douglas Adams
I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so… — Michel Houellebecq
Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable. — Oscar Wilde
This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of… — Primo Levi
What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front. — Richard Dawkins
Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and… — Christopher Hitchens
In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving… — Mercedes Lackey
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to… — Edith Wharton
The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August… — Robert James Waller
I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about… — Wendell Berry
Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might… — Paul Auster

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