Likelihood Quotes

109 quotes by 101 authors

Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated… — David Foster Wallace
The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2… — James W. Prescott
Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and… — Robert A. Burton
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike… — Plato
The military profession, especially is the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well under stress. Professional… — Gwynne Dyer
It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility,… — Phyllis Schlafly
Whatâ€™s the likelihood? That the one girl who makes my heart race is the one girl who wants me in return? That the accident of… — Eleanor Catton
To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we… — Donald Hall
Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day… — Dennis Hastert
Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it. — Peter Elbow
Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success. — Mark Spitz
And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadnt taken every possible step for prevention and… — David Blunkett
Life can be lived as a temporary arrangement. Life is a temporary arrangement! But the longer you go without changing, the more obscure the likelihood… — Jerry Stahl
Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I… — Anton Chekhov
The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it. — Howard Tayler
In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we… — Thomas J. Sargent
The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it. — Thomas J. Sargent
There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course… — Thomas J. Sargent
With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international… — Achim Steiner
The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong. — Harry Segall

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101 authors contributed a total of 109 Likelihood Quotes, led by these top contributors: