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  • We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside the solar system and then, the distances are, of course, immense, then there could be Earth-like planets with more advanced form of life.

    "Big Think Interview With Paul Davies". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 15, 2010.
  • 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."

    Strong   Fun   Good Luck  
  • Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.

  • I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.

    Water   Thank God   Meals  
    A J Jacobs (2012). “The Year of Living Biblically”, p.165, Random House
  • Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

    Perfect   Car   May  
  • The Zionist Tulsa Jew who's pugnacious is a reality. I grew up around it. And I think it's really, really funny and surprising and unlikely.

  • I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

    "The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. October 09, 2011.
  • I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.

    Orson Scott Card (2016). “The Memory of Earth and The Call of Earth”, p.109, Macmillan
  • In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.

    Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”
  • So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No," I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely." At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

    "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.
  • The Mother Tantra says that if one is not aware in vision, it is unlikely that one will be aware in behavior. If one is not aware in behavior, one is unlikely to be aware in dream. And if one is not aware in dream, then one is unlikely to be aware in the bardo after death.

    Mother   Dream   Vision  
    Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.81, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
  • Inspiration comes whenever it wants, even at the most unlikely times and in the most inappropriate situations. Often it arrives bit by bit. Therefore it must be anchored, and this is where a most valuable item makes its appearance: the notebook.

  • If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

    Firsts   Unlikely   Ifs  
  • 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.

    Dark   Self   Long  
    Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.18, Da Capo Press
  • In an unlikely pairing, Hillary Clinton made an appearance this week with Newt Gingrich to push a health care plan. The press is making a big deal out this thing with Newt but, hey, if anyone knows how to appear in public with a man she can't stand, it's Hillary.

    Men   Hey   Care  
  • Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute-- Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good-- Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.

    Soul   Favors   Rooms  
    Joanna Baillie (1806). “A series of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind: each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy”, p.98
  • White Collar' is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a sometimes very funny way.

  • Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time.

  • It would seem unlikely that a manufacturer of short-lived paperboard boxes could make the slightest cultural impact upon his time. But the facts show that if even the humblest product is designed, manufactured, and distributed with a sense of human values and with a taste for quality, the world will recognize the presence of a creative force.

  • Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art being mangled; furthermore, it is unlikely that the venerable scholars will stand up afterward to declare, "This lecture was a load of crap." The more profound a professor's distaste with the proceedings, the more likely he is to melt away at the end of the talk.

    Art   Book   People  
    "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.
  • People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.

  • I would never find myself or unlikely to find myself in a room where I have a skeptic who brought me in. But I very often am in a situation somebody who's there who didn't invite me was a skeptic. That happens all the time.

    Source: advisor.tv
  • The amazing thing is that throughout Scripture and history it seems God has chosen the most seemingly unlikely and unqualified people to fulfill his plan and purpose on the earth. Most often, the response of those people has been to insist on their own unworthiness. And if they don’t-the people around them may do so, loudly and shrilly. And therein lies a danger: If we allow other people to tell us what we are and are not qualified to do, we will limit what God wants to do with us.

    Lying   People   Purpose  
  • Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

    Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.63, Penguin
  • 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.

    People   Genius   Want  
  • America is an unlikely place - a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it's now your turn to help keep it this way.

  • People of dua are optimistic by definition. They know that dua and thoughts like 'unlikely' or 'impossible' don't coexist.

    FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Aug 07, 2013
  • Ah," said the magus, understanding at once. "I see that he means to be prepared if he meets him again." "Surely that's unlikely," said Sounis. "I don't think unlikely means to him what it does to the rest of us," said the magus.

    Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow
  • Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

    Islands   Jace   Unlikely  
    Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.243, Simon and Schuster
  • I always say nothing you can imagine is totally impossible. It might be unlikely, but that's as far as I'll go.

    Emily Rodda (1989). “The Pigs Are Flying”, Camelot
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