Quotes of Unlikely - somelinesforyou

“ Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. ”

- Christopher Reeve

“ Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. ”

- Galileo Galilei

“ Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. ”

- George Ade

“ There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. ”

- Rene Descartes

“ Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. ”

- Richard Dawkins

“ Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable. ”

- Christopher Reeve

“ The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ Skeptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided is it only sufficiently improbable; it is at matters of fact that such people stumble. ”

- Karl Ludwig von Knebel

“ Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable. ”

- Wilfred Owen

“ The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time. ”

- Peter Cochrane

“ The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world. ”

- John Ashcroft

“ Courage is found in unlikely places. ”

- J. R. R. Tolkien

“ Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution. ”

- Charles Krauthammer

“ No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe. ”

- Lazarus Long

“ This is true enough, but 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 deeper, truer happiness in failure. ”

- Michael Korda

“ Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ”

- Aristotle

“ How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ And tomorrow — who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows — it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable. ”

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

“ I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely. ”

- Brian Molko

“ Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics. ”

- Jennifer Granholm

“ If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Imagine believing in the control of inflation by curbing the money supply! That is like deciding to stop your dog fouling the sidewalk by plugging up its rear end. It is highly unlikely to succeed, but if it does it kills the hound. ”

- Michael D. Stephens
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