Unlikely Quotes - Page 10

Love is ever where the heart will find it no matter how unlikely seems the place.

John McLeod

Love, Heart, Matter

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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 fleets of electric carts going off in the morning like the first assault wave at the Battle of El Alamein. It is unlikely, for some time, that a Briton will come across in his native land such a scorecard as Henry Longhurst rescued from a California club and cherished till the day he died. The last on its list of local rules printed the firm warning "A Player on Foot Has No Standing on the Course."

Alistair Cooke

Morning, Golf, Player

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Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire to combine business and meals. True, a wolf pack shared a kill, but not from any great desire to do so—rather because any who departed the scene would be unlikely to get a share... She struggled...not to bolt her food and almost always remembered that growling when a person spoke to you was not a proper response.

Jane Lindskold

Departed, Desire, Wolf Packs

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... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter crime significantly, many experts concluded. Those who had meaningful economic and social opportunities were unlikely to commit crimes regardless of the penalty, while those who went to prison were far more likely to commit crimes again in the future.

Michelle Alexander

Meaningful, Opportunity, Experts

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We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the dark, and for as long as we persist in self-centeredness. That could be a lengthy stretch of time.

Christopher Hitchens

Dark, Self, Long

Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.18, Da Capo Press

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Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this causes me no qualms. I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

Bertrand Russell

Believe, Thinking, Odin

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Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.

Patricia Briggs

Hero, Coyotes, Forget

Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.436, Penguin

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Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.

Steve Jobs

Past, Innovation, Experience

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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. Participant doesn't make a lot of sense from a financial investment perspective, so it's unlikely that other people will be approaching the business in the same way. So you see less urgency; you see a thoroughness and willingness to spend extra time to get things right. Which I think is really important.

Jeffrey Skoll

Business, Moving, Thinking

"The Indie Movie Mogul". Interview with Michael S. Malone, www.wired.com. February 1, 2006.

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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 truly over.

Gerald Bard Tjoflat

War, Liberty, Terror

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Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.

Stefan Zweig

Fear, Mirrors, Imagination

Stefan Zweig (2009). “The Post Office Girl”, Sort of

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For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the federal legislature will be likely to attach themselves too much to local objects.

James Madison

Too Much, Reason, Members

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.219

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Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would leave the existence of the Union entirely at their mercy . . . . It is to little purpose to say that a neglect or omission of this kind [not letting the feds have elections], would be unlikely to take place. The constitutional possibility of the thing, without an equivalent for the risk, is an unanswerable objection.

Alexander Hamilton

Hands, Omission, Government

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Daily prayers can help us keep on the path that leads to eternal life. We are very unlikely to stray if we offer a humble, simple prayer at least each morning and evening to express thanks and to seek divine guidance.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Life, Morning, Prayer

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Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously unlikely that, even if there were one ideal pattern for society, it could be arrived at in an a priori fashion. And even supposing that some great genius did come along with a blueprint, who could have the confidence that it could work

Robert Nozick

Fashion, Supposing That, People

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Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Men, Economics, Economist

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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 legislation.

Lucinda Creighton

Monday, Gay, Would Be

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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, for unless he finds what it is that excites him, what it is that calls forth at once an emotional response, he is unlikely to achieve his best work.

Bill Brandt

Photography, Believe, Emotional

Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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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 content with that.

Pearl S. Buck

Writing, Thinking, Trying

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Your fantasies are unlikely. But beautiful.

Thom Yorke

Love, Beautiful, Dream

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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, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one's particular life path might appear to one's self or others at any given moment.

Genesis P-Orridge

Spiritual, Being Yourself, Art

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The motto I have penned on my knuckles is that this is the best world we have--because it's the only world we have. It's the simplest math ever. However many terrible, rankling, peeve-inducing things may occur, there are always libraries. And rain-falling-on-sea. And the moon. And love. There is always something to look back on, with satisfaction, or forward to, with joy. There is always a moment where you boggle at the world--at yourself--at the whole, unlikely, precarious business of being alive--and then start laughing

Caitlin Moran

Rain, Fall, Math

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And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.

James Wolcott

Team, Book, Moon

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Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.

Daniel Radcliffe

Want, Slim, Fit

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If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

Michael Porter

Successful, Trying, Rivals

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