Likely Quotes - page 2

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might be the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of matériel and supplies? (Chester W. Nimitz)
Game theory is a theory of strategic interaction. That is to say, it is a theory of rational behavior in social situations in which each player has to choose his moves on the basis of what he thinks the other players' countermoves are likely to be. View quote
John Harsanyi
Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female. View quote
Desmond Morris
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life? View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. View quote
Natalie Clifford Barney
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. View quote
Alexander Smith
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort. View quote
Jane Austen
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. (Clint Eastwood)
The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo development-and it is much more likely that this self-organizing structure, to be enhanced, needs to be carefully balanced, tuned, and cultivated rather than simply flooded with some extraneous potion. View quote
Nick Bostrom
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. View quote
Warren Buffett
Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. View quote
John Perry Barlow
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. View quote
Brian Tracy
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse. View quote
Wyndham Lewis
If I prove a bad president, I will also likely to prove the last president. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day. View quote
Mark Haddon
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data. (Aubrey de Grey)
But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes. View quote
Robert Shea
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. View quote
Charles Cooley
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. View quote
Charles Cooley
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble. View quote
Charles Cooley