Quotes with likely

  • If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
  • One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
  • Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
  • Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
  • The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
  • Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
  • If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
  • It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
  • What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
  • The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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  • Greg Anderson Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Joseph Addison If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Brad Delson 'Music for Relief' has played a vital role in helping get aid to people who most need it. We are deeply honored to participate in what will likely be our biggest event to date.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Bruno Rossi A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.
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  • Bertrand Russell A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Fawn M. Brodie A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • John F. Kennedy A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Bill Bryson America is an outstandingly dangerous place. Consider this: every year in New Hampshire a dozen or more people are killed crashing their cars into moose. Now correct me if I am wrong, but this is not something that is likely to happen to you on the way home from Sainsbury's.
    Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Brent Spiner And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!
    Brent Spiner
    American actor, comedian and singer (1949 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Ben Horowitz As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what's going on, you're very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you're guaranteed to fail.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bill de Blasio As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bill Buford Bahia is the Amazon's geographical next-of-kin: the same climate, forest canopy, diverse floor. But there is no wild cacao; the tree was introduced, most likely by a Frenchman, Louis Frederick Warneaux, who, in 1746, sowed seeds near one of Bahia's large rivers.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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