Likely Quotes
2182 quotes by 1607 authors
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Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that…
— Adolf Hitler
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I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many…
— Randy Alcorn
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Miss a putt for $2,000? Not likely!
— Walter Hagen
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Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short of breath. Shortness…
— Sally Ride
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The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.
— Robert Ringer
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Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion…
— Sissela Bok
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Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that…
— David Simon
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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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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
— Aristotle
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A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have…
— William Ralph Inge
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances…
— Agnes Repplier
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I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.
— Samuel Johnson
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[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who…
— Tertullian
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Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.
— Mark Twain
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...By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or in this case, an architectural...…
— George W. Bush
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It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.
— Martin Rees
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It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it,…
— James Agee
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If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.
— Ray Floyd
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In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going…
— Phil Jackson
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Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
— Robert Breault
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