Least Likely Quotes
34 quotes by 31 authors
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world.
— Dillon Burroughs
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.
— Milan Kundera
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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
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People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.
— Sinead O'Connor
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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
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Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.
— Ryan Adams
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Least Likely Quotes
31 authors contributed a total of 34 Least Likely Quotes, led by these top contributors: