Unlikely Quotes - Page 6

• I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

  William H. Gass

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  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The word "missing" is particularly cruel, leaving as it does a ray of hope that the person will turn up safe and well, even in the most doomed circumstances. As days go by, it becomes increasingly unlikely and yet and yet...

  Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

  Missing, Leaving, Rays

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• It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.

  James Dyson

  Creativity, Ideas, Confusion

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• Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

  Carl Jung

  Long, Dawn, Idealism

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.74, Routledge

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• Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

  Paul Auster

  Notebook, Hands, Events

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings.

  Stuart J. Russell

  People, Goal, Machines

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, www.businessinsider.com. August 9, 2015.

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• What is forgiving? Forgiving is giving up all claim on one who had hurt you and letting go of the emotional consequences of the hurt. How can we do that? It's done at the price of beating back our pride. By nature we are selfish. Forgiving, by definition, is unselfish. Being hurt by another person wounds our pride. Pride stands in the way of forgiving. We cannot forgive without God's help. It might be possible for us to forgive something inconsequential without God's help; but in significant matters, we are unlikely to accomplish anything without God's involvement in the process.

  Richard Walters

  Letting Go, Hurt, Giving Up

  "Let Go and Be Free: How Forgiving Calms Anger and Heals Wounded Hearts". Book by Richard Walters, August 15, 2002.

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• It is very unlikely that Uganda will face a chaotic scenario similar to that in Syria or other places. Incidentally, doctors, scientists, engineers and nurses are highly sought after and find jobs immediately.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Jobs, Uganda, Doctors

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We have all had serendipitous moments - the most unlikely meetings out of nowhere - that can happen when we have this quality of deep acceptance towards ourselves.

  Roger Housden

  Acceptance, Quality, Moments

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Visit your local supermarket or retail chain. You'll experience a lot of visual stimulus, but it's unlikely that your other senses will encounter any compelling messages.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Messages, Encounters, Retail

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there that we can't observe at present or you have to say there was a plan. I actually find the argument of the existence of a God who did the planning more compelling than the bubbling of all these multiverses.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Planning, Argument

  Source: inters.org

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• I still think, despite everything, that the US is very unlikely to attack Iran. It could be a huge catastrophe; nobody knows what the consequences would be. I imagine that only an administration that's really desperate would resort to that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Iran, Would Be

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If you're a person with resources who is LGBT, you may have some problems with that - but, frankly, you'll probably have an apartment. If you're poor, if you're transgender, if you're a person of color, if you're HIV positive and you're homeless, the ability to act on desire, the ability to be safely somewhere to make love with anybody that you want to make love with is unlikely.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Color, Making Love, Desire

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find yourself living in her universe, doing things that are completely unexpected or unimaginable for you, but you blink and you're up on a stage singing, or wearing a peculiar wig, or writing a book filled with feelings and emotion, or doing something equally as unlikely.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, Reality

  "Uncharted Waters: Joe Hill Explores Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Interview With Robin A. Rothman, www.amazonbookreview.com. June 9, 2013.

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• It's very unlikely you're a genius, but, if you're ready to work at it hard and you want to listen to music all the time and you want to learn about it and you want to be around the people who do it, you'll find your own way.

  Jon Gordon

  People, Genius, Want

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• I want a strong man, but a gentle one. And, most unlikely of all, but most essential, I want a man with a capacity for love - to give it generously and accept it joyously. I also want somebody who, when I say, "Let's call it quits," won't hang on; who'll say, "All right, it was fun while it lasted. So long and good luck."

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Strong, Fun, Good Luck

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• The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, "Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears."

  Kate DiCamillo

  Hero, Writing, Son

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Falling In Love, Princess, Hero

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• It's unlikely that you were a frog in a past life.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Past, Frogs, Past Life

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• The West can only try to destroy Russia and China internally, through horrendous sets of tricks, propaganda and toxic lies. But now even such a scenario is unlikely.

  Andre Vltchek

  Lying, Russia, Trying

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But, given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence.

  James Comey

  Would Be, Actors, Mail

  James Comey's Statement on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System, www.fbi.gov. July 5, 2016.

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• It should go without saying that you are not doing anything wrong by having sex in your own home, and based on the care you've taken to keep things relatively quiet it's unlikely that you're violating any city noise ordinances.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Sex, Taken, Home

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I don't need every customer. I'm primarily in the business of selling a product for money. How much effort do I really want to devote to satisfying people who are unable or extremely unlikely to pay for anything?

  Marco Arment

  People, Effort, Pay

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• The risk pertinent to a particular attempt (and to its evaluation as an attempt of its sort) is the risk that the agent will fail to attain the end constitutive of that attempt. This risk of failure is coordinate with how likely or unlikely it may be that the agent will then succeed.

  Ernest Sosa

  Risk, Evaluation, Succeed

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Our process inside the United States government has gotten much better at making sure we touch all possible source of information about a refugee. The interview process has gotten more robust, so we've gotten our act together in that respect. The challenge remains, especially with respect to folks coming from Syria, we're unlikely to have anything in our holdings. That is, with people coming from Iraq, the United States government was there for a very long period of time. We had biometrics, we had source information. We're unlikely to have that kind of picture about someone coming from Syria.

  James Comey

  Government, Iraq, Long

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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