Plausible Quotes

129 quotes by 116 authors

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible — Will Rogers
I come from a country that is now utterly schizophrenic when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas.… — David Simon
Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible… — Kurt Vonnegut
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate… — Bill Vaughan
In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe… — Paul Davies
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to… — Morris Raphael Cohen
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal,… — Max Eastman
First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a… — Robert Harris
There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will… — Daniel Kahneman
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Criticism is prejudice made plausible. — H. L. Mencken
There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. — H. L. Mencken
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible… — Ralph Merkle
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its… — Alexis de Tocqueville
If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is… — Soren Kierkegaard
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then… — Kurt Vonnegut
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because… — Theodore Kaczynski
The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her… — Ian Mcewan
Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are! — H.G. Wells
Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself,… — Brenda Ueland

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