Unlikely Quotes
309 quotes by 273 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
— Roald Dahl
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Love is ever where the heart will find it no matter how unlikely seems the place.
— John McLeod
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No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Your fantasies are unlikely. But beautiful.
— Thom Yorke
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Unlikely Quotes
273 authors contributed a total of 309 Unlikely Quotes, led by these top contributors: