Best Likelihood Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For St George knew very well what all real soldiers know; that the only way to be even approximately likely to kill a dragon is to give the dragon a heavy chance of killing you. And this method, which is the only one, is much too unpleasant to be talked about.”

Death Courage Method Soldier Dragon Likelihood Unpleasant St George

Book:The Glass Walking Stick

Source: The Glass Walking Stick

“Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger than me. That simple fact makes God not only a likelihood, but a necessity.”

God Christian Christianity Bible Evidence Bigger Likelihood Big Necessity Large

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.”

God Might Ability Power Richelle Goodrich Statistics Richelle Almighty Probability Likelihood Omnipotence

Book:Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.”

Hope Wish Chance Disappointment Anticipation Expectation Likelihood

Book:Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

“A man who fears God is careful about his integrity all the time, while a person who fears punishment of the State is careful only when there is a likelihood of being caught and punished.”

God Integrity Caught Careful Punishment Fears State Likelihood

Book:Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.”

“Laisha had got a glimpse of the vast ocean that lay before her. She could either eatch it recede from her sight or plunge into it. It was not possible to take the risk of plunging headlong into the ocean. No one viewed the ocean to be drowned into it. Everyone caught only a glimpse of it, exulted in having got this farand returned home with renewed zest. The knowledge that the ocean existed was overwhelming enough. One could wallow in the idea that there was indeed a further possibility, but one merely desisted. it was not right to acknowledge that one was also frightened of it.”

Love Knowledge Possibility Ocean Glimpse Acknowledgement Likelihood Risks Depths

Author:Anuradha Bhattacharyya

“And he is an owl He is an owl, "Man" tattooed in his armpit Under the broken wing (Stunned by the wall of glare, he fell here) Under the broken wing of huge shadow that twitches across the floor. He is a man in hopeless feathers.”

Poetic Likelihood Kafka Prosaic Unscientific Ornithology

Book:Wodwo

Source: Wodwo

“Gli uomini confondono ciò che ha bisogno di uno scopo per giustificare se stesso, con il lirismo che non ha bisogno di uno scopo, perché è di là da ogni scopo;..”

Multicultural Likelihood Tragicomedy

Book:Tutta la vita

Source: Tutta la vita

“We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.”

Ifs Humans Kind Said Country Problem Numbers Cases Risk University Harvard Assessment Likelihood Small Numbers Health Problems Human Health Harvard University

Author:Ann Veneman

“If you use Facebook - as I do - Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.”

Ifs Use Faces Used Unique Crowds Digital Your Face Accurate Files Likelihood Fingerprints Large Crowds

Author:Al Franken

“Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.”

Men Light Law Purpose Christ Loss Powerful Accepting Taken Grace Serious Holy Weapons Gains Guilt Conviction Conversion Perceive Sinner Most Powerful Deprived Likelihood Powerful Weapons

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.”

Thinking Evil Individual Trouble Honest Becoming Authority Blind Obedience Inquiry Likelihood Blind Obedience

Author:Charles Kimball

“Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. Aside from anything else, the possibility of a sequel is nonexistent.”

Want Writing Fate Risk Possibility Tragedy Add Preparation Sequels Likelihood

Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.”

Years Four Four Years Realised Likelihood

Author:Shane Warne

“If we do not get a universal acceptance of the constitution the likelihood of the violence continuing is there. If it had been an inclusive exercise -- as when everybody had embraced the constitution and everyone saw his interest protected by the constitution -- I think it would have been a rallying exercise. We are not there at this stage”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Interest Saws Violence Stage Acceptance Exercise Universal Constitution Protected Continuing Likelihood Rallying

Author:Kofi Annan

“What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade”

Knowing Caring Decades Believer Generous Helpful Psychologist Likelihood Sociologists

Author:Alfie Kohn

“I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.”

Want Years Book Opposites Nine Familiar Editors Publish Nine Years Likelihood

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behavior of yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural connection and increase the likelihood that you'll do it again.”

Motivational Emotion Behavior Connections Increase Loved Ones Indulge Yelling Indulge In Likelihood

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.”

Women Increase Likelihood

Author:Amy Dickinson

“Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural in all likelihood is not.”

Feels Natural Products Compelled Likelihood

Author:Michael Pollan

“I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very little likelihood of that ever coming to pass. And to be sure if I chose to look at things on one side and not the other I could of course regret this bitterly. But there is more peace and it isthe holier lot to be unknown than to be known.”

Ifs Looks Littles I Can Courses Asks Sides Known Regret Superiors Fancy Verses Volume Publish Likelihood

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.”

People Men Giving Humans Kind Stills Life Is Given Common Subjects Fit Blessing Good Things Admire Human Life Greek Moderation Observing Deities Splendid Likelihood Felicity Vicissitudes

Author:Solon

“When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.”

Humans Wells Government Principles Human Nature Possibility Citizens Possession Cease Concentration Camps Household Honored Likelihood Concentration Camp

Book:The Long-Legged House

Source: The Long-Legged House

“In reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being accepted into the French nobility four centuries ago, though at least an aristocratic age was franker, and therefore kinder, about the odds. It did not relentlessly play up the possibilities open to all, and so, in turn, did not cruelly equate an ordinary life with a failed one.”

“I don't recall that I have said and I don't think that I really feel that we need a world government. We need governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can't imagine that there would be any likelihood or even that it would be desirable to have a single government elected by the people of the world.”

People Thinking World Needs Feels Said I Can Government Would Be Together Imagine Working Together Imagine That Recalls Desirable Likelihood World Government

Author:David Rockefeller

“When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled...It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.”

Way Black Sin Virtue Media Goodness Originals Surrender Innocence Mature Phases Outlook Implications Likelihood Original Sin Augustine Knowledge And Experience

Book:Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Source: Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

“This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.”

“If the North Korean side shows no sincerity in solving the nuclear weapon, abduction and missile issues, then the likelihood of normalization of diplomatic relations is very slim.”

Ifs Shows Sides Issues Weapons Relation Nuclear Sincerity Nuclear Weapons North Korea Missiles Korean Diplomatic Likelihood Slim North Korean Abduction Diplomatic Relations

Author:Koichi Haraguchi

“It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.”

Real Understanding Concepts Probability Likelihood

Author:Anthony Stafford Beer

“The Noisiest buzz in the industry lately has been over the emerging use of cable TV systems to provide fast network data transmissions using a device called a cable modem. But the likelihood of this technology succeeding is zilch.”

Has Beens Use Technology Tvs Industry Succeed Data Devices Cables Emerging Buzz Likelihood Transmission Cable Tv

Author:John C. Dvorak

“The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.”

Next Physics Mathematical Extensions Likelihood

Author:Peter Tait

“Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!”

Ends Process Company Design Female Innovation Consumers Employee Target Users Empowered Marketplace Likelihood Utilizing

Author:Indra Nooyi

“Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.”

Ifs World Believe Whole Seems Nature Common Creation Judging Claims Trade Common Sense Revelations Anarchy Fringe Extremism Lunatic Likelihood Giraffe Improbability

Author:Annie Dillard

“When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of an explanation. This is true enough, but not really a positive argument. After mechanistic explanation became popular, infidels liked to restrict causality to the chain of causes in an eternal material universe, pointing out that no supernatural cause was then necessary. Plausible, but still rather defensive. Today's skeptic can do better. In all likelihood, the universe is uncaused. It is random. It just is.”

Stills Enough Today Religion Universe Causes Can Do Materials Demand Eternal Argument Chains Explanation Pointing Skeptic Plausible Likelihood Infidel Causality

Author:Taner Edis

“The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.”

Mean Doe Social Differences Equality Likelihood Contributors Social Status

Book:The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses if sought for are forever starting up,--it is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks, that affection is won and preserved. He who neglects these trifles yet boasts that, whenever a great sacrifice is called for, he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. The likelihood is, he will not make it; and if he does, it will be much rather for his own sake than for his neighbor's.”

“My dogs, the only creatures on the planet marked by my singular nurturing imprint, have all turned out to be rude and self-absorbed. In all likelihood, if they were children instead of dogs, I would have foisted more Charlie Sheens or Kardashians onto our crumbling culture.”

Ifs Children Self Culture Dog Planets Creatures Rude My Dog Charlie Nurturing Likelihood Self Absorbed Crumbling

Author:Merrill Markoe

“To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit one to the use of force; it is to assume a position where the best intentions cannot prevent one from being forced to act in a way which to some of those affected must appear highly immoral. This is true even if we assume the dominant power to be as idealistic and unselfish as we can possibly conceive. But how small is the likelihood that it will be unselfish, and how great are the temptations!”

“time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent sort of thing to deal with that people casually refer to as 'friendship,' as if that were the end of the matter.”

People Ifs Ends Matter Friendship Deals Greater Findings Permanent Finding Yourself More Time Likelihood Adhesive

Book:Under the 82nd Airborne: Stories

Source: Under the 82nd Airborne: Stories

“If you're white and you're rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you're poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.”

Ifs Matter Black White Poor Rich Drug Usa Jail Attorney Hispanic Likelihood Busted

Author:Rand Paul

“The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.”

Ifs Men Ideas Young Girl Strong Simple Secret Marriage Possibility Aim Mere Profession Pursuit Reasonable Inferiority Likelihood

Author:William Bolitho

“the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.”

People Ifs Needs Might Would Be Conditions Friends Deeds Likelihood Not Friends Friend In Need Friends Again

Book:The White Flag

Source: The White Flag

“You should prepare to follow the program for 90 days. Why? Because behavioral research indicates that it takes 90 days to prepare for change, build a new behavior, become confident in the face of high-risk triggers, and move past the likelihood of relapse. Brain research also suggests that it takes a few months of practicing a new behavior to create permanent change.”

Should Past Faces Moving Brain Risk Months Behavior Research Program Permanent Triggers Will Power Likelihood Relapse High Risk Permanent Change

Book:Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Goals and Resolutions

Source: Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Goals and Resolutions

“Any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Tragic, first because it decreases our likelihood of getting our need met! Even if we think it. And secondly, because it increases the likelihood of violence. That's why I'm suggesting any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Say the need! Learn a need-consciousness.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Firsts Consciousness Violence Expression Communication Mets Increase Tragic Suicidal Decrease Nonviolent Communication Suggesting Evaluation Likelihood Unmet Needs

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going to get any cheaper.”

Needs Courses Diversity Threat Agriculture Cheaper Likelihood Petroleum

Author:Wendell Berry

“I believe in the Constitution. I believe in separation of powers. I believe in the rule of law. I believe in limited government. And these are principles and policies that apparently neither the national Republican nor the national Democrat Party believes in. I believe great damage is being done to our Constitution, and I see no remedy at all, no likelihood of that changing, if we rely on the two parties to field our candidates for national office.”

“The most significant learning occurs when emotions are integrated with instruction because all body systems are united. The Arts are strongly linked to emotions, enhancing the likelihood that students will remember something.”

Art Body Remember United Emotion Students Significant Instruction Linked Integrated Likelihood Remember Something

Author:Eric Jensen

“Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as being on all fours with its non-existence.”

Mean Used Purpose Existence Atheism Treats Positive Atheism Mars Agnostic Orbit Likelihood Hypothetical Non Existence Didactic Teapots Fours

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it was in the jungle, a million, two millions years ago. But in the last 200 years, our destructive capacities have increased many, many millions of times over. Why don't we see intelligent signals from outer space? Because in all likelihood, once the civilization reaches the point our civilization has reached, it destroys itself.”

Thinking Years Two Lasts Space Millions Changed Civilization Capacity Years Ago Intelligent Destructive Signals Dna Jungle Outer Space Likelihood

Author:Stephen Hawking

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