Likely Quotes
2182 Likely quotes by 1547 unique authors
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Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
— William Goldman
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Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these assumptions are of…
— Karl Popper
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...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country…
— H. L. Mencken
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If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know…
— Arthur Miller
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Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in…
— Richard Wright
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Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.
— Walter Kaufmann
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Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the…
— C.S. Lewis
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Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of…
— Mark Haddon
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All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You…
— Nick Hornby
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Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. The lighthouse of the Lord beckons…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I…
— Orson Scott Card
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If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.
— Terry Goodkind
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So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have…
— Epictetus
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Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens…
— Harvey Mackay
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The single best way to develop leaders . . . is to take people out of their safe environment and away from the people they…
— Bruce Wilkinson
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Not surprisingly, the place we're most likely to experience testing is exactly where we struggle most to trust God.
— Bruce Wilkinson
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The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine shamelessness,…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats.…
— Kevin Brockmeier
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Responsibility and Trust -- these two are like Yin and Yang, together perfectly complete, and each one requiring the presence of the other. The next…
— Vera Nazarian
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If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and…
— Isak Dinesen
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Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going…
— William Goldman
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are,…
— Andre Gide
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