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2182 Likely quotes by 1547 unique authors

He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him," said Dumbledore. And notice this, Harry. He chose, not the pureblood… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Tess had said that the river was liable to wash the palace and the city and the whole kingdom off the rocks, and then there… — Kristin Cashore
I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had. — Tana French
~Do you like him much? ~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He… — Charlotte Bronte
Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems. — Charles Colson
A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor… — Jim Trelease
...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer.” Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her. — Anne Mallory
Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the… — C.S. Lewis
Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake, look upon your… — Mercedes Lackey
Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer.… — Michael Lewis
The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But… — Terry Brooks
Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers… — C.S. Lewis
Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are… — Becca Fitzpatrick
So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only… — Diana Wynne Jones
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by… — George Washington
That's possible to likely. We're involved, you and me. I'm telling you what I'm going to do because I figure when people are involved, when… — Nora Roberts
If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And… — Steve Jobs
When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong. — Jodi Picoult
Men always seemed to growl and sniff around each other, bristling over nothing, and just as suddenly become buddies at the least likely moments. — Christine Feehan
Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb… — Ellen Hopkins
He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done… — Jostein Gaarder
Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly… — Rene Descartes
In real life things don’t go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks… — Haruki Murakami
Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary… — John Stuart Mill

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