Books Quote by Jonathan Littell

“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving. Human knowledge is never contained in…

— Paul Kalanithi

La vérité est sur une courbe dont notre ésprit suit éternellement l'asymptote. Truth is on a curve whose asymptote our spirit follows eternally.

— Leo Errera

“If I were a function, you would be my asymptote. I always tend toward you.”

— Penny Reid

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too…

— Elliott Abrams

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know…

— Bertrand Russell

When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.

— Leigh Bardugo

Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal…

— Annalee Newitz

People would say it's very improbable that I'd make it to this point in my life. I made it here because I wasn't discouraged.…

— Carey Price

If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary…

— Michael Leunig

Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.

— Anonymous

“Life seemed improbable. All the turns of fate it had taken for Fern to be the mother of three particular children and the wife…

— Ramona Ausubel