Probable Quotes

203 quotes by 164 authors

Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases… — Marcel Proust
But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more… — C.S. Lewis
Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the… — Stephen King
On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of… — Thomas Jefferson
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure… — Joseph Heller
It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the… — Edgar Allan Poe
After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out… — Dean Koontz
When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this… — David Hume
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in… — Thomas Paine
It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology — Noam Chomsky
There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination — Cressida Cowell
Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no… — Nalini Singh
They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
To live only to sufferâ€”only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlargedâ€”it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that.… — Henry James
I wondered to myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away, before he was suddenly, impossibly saving my life. With chagrin,… — Stephenie Meyer
Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable… — Kathryn Lasky
It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not… — John Steinbeck
I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical — John Steinbeck
It is more than possible; it is probable. — Arthur Conan Doyle
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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