Unlikely Quotes

309 quotes by 273 authors

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating,… — Scott Adams
America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done… — Michael Bloomberg
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. — Edward de Bono
While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain… — Aberjhani
Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a… — Michael Korda
It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have… — Gordon Moore
So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the… — Alistair Cooke
Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's… — Bill McKibben
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. — Roald Dahl
Love is ever where the heart will find it no matter how unlikely seems the place. — John McLeod
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe. — Robert A. Heinlein
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them. — Katherine Anne Porter
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage… — Arthur Koestler
The pace at eBay was frantic and urgent. We knew that if we didn't move fast, somebody would come into the market and quash us.… — Jeffrey Skoll
We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be… — Gerald Bard Tjoflat
Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator,… — Genesis P-Orridge
Your fantasies are unlikely. But beautiful. — Thom Yorke
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be… — Pearl S. Buck
But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this,… — Bill Brandt
I told him last Monday that I felt the way things were going it was unlikely that I would be able to vote for the… — Lucinda Creighton

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