Unlikely Quotes

You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.

Will Herman Cain become the first black President that I acknowledge? I call him a dark horse because he's an unlikely candidate who surged forward, and not because he's a horse.

Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

Trying to prioritize among things we're unlikely to do is pretty fruitless.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

In real life a right-angled triangle is very unlikely to have a square on its hypotenuse.

I think the James Bond thing has sailed. But of course I would want to be a Bond villain. They are great parts. I think it's highly unlikely, but one can always dream.

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

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.

You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be thougth of as a thinning of a layer of clouds.

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

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

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere.

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.

Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.

At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.

Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler's Europe.

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.

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.

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.

Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.

I personally believe that war is highly unlikely.

Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

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

Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a structured story and retain idiosyncrasy.

By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.

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.

An It bag is an It bag, only if you’re unlikely to possess it.

Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.

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

When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.