Improbable Quotes

156 quotes by 121 authors

People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can't do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a… — Brandon Sanderson
The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable. — Louis Sachar
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible — William Arthur Ward
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and… — Mary Oliver
The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat. — Peter Grimwade
He splayed a hand out over the photographs, trembling fingers not quite touching the shiny surface, and then he turned and leaned toward me, slowly,… — Diana Gabaldon
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from… — Jane Austen
Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook… — John Green
Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to… — Douglas Adams
Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible,… — Terry Pratchett
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational… — Douglas Adams
Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these… — Joe Queenan
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. — H. L. Mencken
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it… — George Bernard Shaw
. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and… — Soren Kierkegaard
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. — Madame de Stael
We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed. — Richard Dawkins
The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues.… — Phyllis McGinley
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton… — Alan Watts
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship. — Patrick O'Brian

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