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2182 Likely quotes by 1547 unique authors

When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed… — Marilyn Monroe
Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days - when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned,… — Rick Warren
If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening. — Paulo Coelho
Advertising and the free society are closely connected. Advertising helps to make a free society remain so by increasing competition, and by helping to maintain… — John Treasure
As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely… — Adam Michnik
I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than… — P.J. O'Rourke
Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed… — Simon Newcomb
I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work. The more… — Jack Canfield
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a… — Tony Robbins
Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely… — George Santayana
When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages. — Michael Josephson
If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to… — Stephen Jay Gould
To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms lying beneath them,… — Francis Crick
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will… — Brian Tracy
I was slightly cynical of the American mentality before I came over here, but now I preach it. Here, no one's going to tear you… — Simon Cowell
We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the… — James M. Barrie
We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with… — Richard P. Feynman
It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was… — Lady Gregory
Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to… — Richard Phillips
I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her… — Mila Kunis
High testosterone levels have been proven to make men more likely to commit crimes. The tendency in men toward risky behaviour keeps turning up even… — Rodney Stark
Regular church-goers are substantially more likely than non-attenders to read, to take newspapers and magazines, to listen to classical music, to attend symphony concerts, operas,… — Rodney Stark
As for a fantasy life, working women are more likely to fantasize about finding the perfect child care provider who she can both trust and… — Madeleine M. Kunin
There are times when the presence of more choices can make us choose things that are not good for us. For me the clearest example… — Sheena Iyengar
A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off. — Alice Dreger

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