Least Likely Quotes

34 quotes by 31 authors

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat. — Brendan Behan
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.… — E. O. Wilson
[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine and… — James Madison
There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much… — Alexander Hamilton
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He… — William James
Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it. — Mary Stewart
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them… — Harold Acton
God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world. — Dillon Burroughs
I don't believe athletes should be role models. . . . We're a one-shot deal, one in a million, so we should be the least… — Charles Barkley
I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves. — Bear Grylls
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led… — Aubrey de Grey
My own personal view is that vaccines are unsafe and worthless. I will not allow myself to be vaccinated again. .....The bottom line is that… — Vernon Coleman
Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence. — Milan Kundera
Since strict obedience is demanded and harshly enforced, only the least talented, least articulate, least nuanced thinkers, least likely to take a stand against abuse,… — Kate Kelly
People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them. — Sinead O'Connor
It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I… — Mary Steenburgen
Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it. — Ryan Adams
I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least likely to hate… — Konrad Lorenz
It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the… — Mark Twain

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