Likely Quotes

2182 Likely quotes by 1547 unique authors

My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people… — David Sedaris
It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come… — A.C. Grayling
I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half… — Robert Frost
Well-read people are less likely to be evil. — Daniel Handler
What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of… — Douglas Adams
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less… — Dean Koontz
He wondered if he might be in love, but realized it was far more likely he was dying. — Herbie Brennan
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely. — Agatha Christie
Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor… — Clive Barker
...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort… — Victor Hugo
If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading… — John C. Maxwell
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely… — Carl Sagan
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of… — Chuck Palahniuk
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire… — George Eliot
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. — Charlotte Bronte
You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school,… — Katherine Applegate
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only… — M. Scott Peck
It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again. — George MacDonald
Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you… — C.S. Lewis
People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary… — Stephen Jay Gould
You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke. — Susanna Clarke
I hate horses. I know people who think that they are noble, graceful animals, but regardless of what a horse looks like from a distance,… — Megan Whalen Turner
if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well? — Henry David Thoreau
For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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