Likely Quotes

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We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply… — Lydia Davis
The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave. — Joe Meno
A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely… — Barbara Cartland
One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick… — Russell Baker
Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious. — Melissa Harris-Perry
If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man has grown up… — Charles Ives
It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way. — Kate Millett
Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. — Bob Riley
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory… — Murray Gell-Mann
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. — Larry Wall
I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past, — Jeffrey Katzenberg
Maybe weâ€™ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how… — Carl Safina
If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much. — Richard Petty
Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner. — Eric Berne
Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go in… — B. C. Forbes
I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd… — Fats Waller
Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of… — Joseph Campbell
When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf… — Peter Lynch
...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be… — Daniel J. Siegel
It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this ambition, this aspiration… — B. C. Forbes

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