Likely Quotes
2182 quotes by 1547 authors
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What is likely to vanish - or be transformed beyond recognition - are many of the things we think of when we think of Australia:…
— Jeff Goodell
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Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the…
— Barry Eichengreen
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Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to…
— David Crystal
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Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part of that infant…
— Peter Ackroyd
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A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest…
— Simon Hoggart
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In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard…
— Douglas Alexander
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Tell people that biology and the environment cause obesity and they are offered the one thing we have to avoid: an excuse. As it is,…
— Andrew Lansley
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Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables.…
— Andrew Lansley
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One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are…
— Eric Schlosser
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The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among…
— Matthew Scully
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You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it is you know you should do, do it.
— Samuel Smiles
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What makes the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes? Lots of things, and it may take months or years for wish to come true,…
— Fred Rogers
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If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.
— Chinese Proverbs
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We speculated what it was like before we got language skills. When we humans had our first thought, most likely we didnt know what to…
— Jane Wagner
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Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.
— Arthur Helps
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Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as…
— Anthony Storr
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Nationhood is more likely to guarantee autocracy, decadence and corruption than real democracy.
— Martin Dansky
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Anything that happens once does not neccessarily happen again, everyting that happens twice is likely to happen for the tird time as well.
— Arab Proverb
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What kind of love is more pure and more majestic, like the love for your native country. What kind of love? Theres nothing more, nothing.…
— Sorin Cerin
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By chasing away the Evil in us we will also chase away the Good. This is mans paradox, to search himself without ever fully finding…
— Sorin Cerin
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