Unlikely Quotes - Page 15

• Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it can happen), so in that sense the gap between rich and poor has narrowed. But the question isn't whether society is, in some sense, more equal than it was in 1900. It's whether it is radically more unequal than it was in 1970. And of course it is.

  Paul Krugman

  Justice, Progress, Gaps

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• I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places … In the most unlikely places I will bless your efforts and reward your perseverance with small indications of your victory.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Perseverance, Secret Places, Giving

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• Unlikely things are often true . . .

  Sheridan Hay

  Sheridan Hay (2008). “The Secret of Lost Things”, p.155, Anchor

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• Sometimes the newly Marked go into shock. The good news is, if this happens to you, you are unlikely to notice, because you will be in shock.

  Cassandra Clare

  News, Sometimes, Shock

  Cassandra Clare, Joshua Lewis (2013). “The Shadowhunter's Codex”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

  Tom Peters

  Believe, Secret, World

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• For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

  John Podhoretz

  Thinking, Example, Republican

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• In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or propriety.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reality, People, Trying

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Anansi Boys”, p.197, Hachette UK

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• I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Sometimes, Life Is, Written

  Source: girdblog.com

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• You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.

  Kristin Cashore

  Queens, House, May

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.235, Penguin

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• No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.

  G. H. Hardy

  Years, Numbers, Purpose

  G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

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• In the beginning I just was dreaming about working in fashion at all, no matter what the role would be, and it just seemed so unlikely. I was living in San Diego and it seemed so far away.

  Rumi Neely

  Dream, Fashion, Would Be

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

  Jodi Picoult

  Awards, Lawyer, Notorious

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• My eyes are bright, my hair has come loose from its ribbon, and Stella's scarf is waving around my neck. But that's not what I see when I look at the picture. I see three unlikely friends holding hands. And Ryan, Kenny, and Melanie are standing behind us, rapt. And in the sky above us, I see a miracle.

  Wendy Mass

  Eye, Hair, Hands

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• Sanctions against such country as Russia are unlikely to be effective.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Russia, Sanctions

  Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• Facebook has been around for seven years. It has 500 million users. If you can't figure out how to make money off half a billion people in seven years, I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're unlikely to ever do.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Years, People, Half

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• People who don't accept that doctrinal system, they may try to survive in the media, but they are unlikely to.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, People, Trying

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, I'll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, I'll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky.

  Daniel Handler

  Relationship, Stars, Fall

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• The recent market run-up that appreciated run-of-the- mill shares also chanced to send up those token gold holdings. Pure luck, undeserved and unlikely to reoccur. Good questions outrank easy answers.

  Paul Samuelson

  Running, Luck, Gold

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1986). “Coll Sci Pap V5”, p.561, MIT Press

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• Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Guilt, Principles

  "Rogers v. Richmond, 365 U.S. 534". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 20, 1961.

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• It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path.

  Alice Miller

  Summer, Running, Children

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.16, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human.

  Alain de Botton

  Greek, Rewards, Leisure

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Persecution

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• You know why men make more money than women? Because, in the unlikely event that we're both on the Titanic and it starts to sink, for some reason, you get to leave with the kids and I have
  to stay - that's why I get the dollar more an hour.

  Bill Burr

  Kids, Men, Events

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• Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Long, Wish, Stories

  Peter S. Beagle (2009). “We Never Talk about My Brother”

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• The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Successful, Opposites, Doe

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