Likely Quotes

2182 Likely quotes by 1547 unique authors

It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?" "Why bother with that? Let's find incubi." "Incubi?" "Demons. Plural.… — Holly Black
The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority… — Edward Abbey
We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either. — John Green
I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in - God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower of other… — Cassandra Clare
The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do… — Michael Lewis
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going,… — Franz Kafka
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion… — Thomas Hardy
History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you.… — Howard Zinn
Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands of… — Stephenie Meyer
The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true. — Christopher Paolini
Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?' 'Faffing about, most likely', said Will. — Cassandra Clare
Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to… — Charles de Lint
This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but… — Jon Krakauer
But give up my business? The same business I'd built from the ground up with my own two hands and designer Louis Vuittons? The same… — Darynda Jones
Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion,… — Charles Yu
I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely… — Wallace Stegner
He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is even less likely… — David Benatar
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack. — Brandon Sanderson
True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not… — Jimmy Breslin
I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs. — Diana Gabaldon
Any chance he’s turned a new leaf and taken up sailing for real?” “About as likely as me doing it.” Hadrian eyed Royce for a… — Michael J. Sullivan
Have you ever been in love, Hadrian?” “I’m not sure. How do you tell?” “Love? Why, it’s like coming home.” Hadrian considered the comment. “What… — Michael J. Sullivan
Lassiter came in alone, likely because Doc Jane had returned to the Pit. And the angel was naked as a jaybird… and just frickin’ fine.… — J R Ward
Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're… — Agatha Christie

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