Likely Quotes - page 4

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn. (W. Somerset Maugham)
In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan. View quote
Jim Butcher
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts. View quote
Felix Adler
According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry, lonely women, you'll be dead soon. View quote
Tina Fey
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. View quote
Lou Holtz
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to makewar. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict. View quote
Simone Weil
It's more likely I'll dye my hair green, get a bunch of tattoos and go on tour with Amy Winehouse. View quote
Mike Huckabee
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts. View quote
Alexander Pope
The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias. View quote
John Derbyshire
In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but is also likely to be the very last. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Earth's the right place for love I don't know where it's likely to go better. (Robert Frost)
The suppression of liberty is always likely to be irrational. View quote
John Rawls
To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
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? View quote
Epictetus
No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world. View quote
G. H. Hardy
If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later. View quote
Dashiell Hammett
I was number one on the Who's Likely To Die list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list. View quote
Keith Richards
What has pleased, and continues to please, is likely to please again: hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immoveable foundation they must ever stand. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line. View quote
Richard Branson
In songbirds, it is generally the male of the species that sings, and for some species, the larger the repertoire, the more likely it is to attract a mate. View quote
Daniel Levitin
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. (Steve Jobs)
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired in a few generations. The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. View quote
E. O. Wilson
The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the - not so very - long run. View quote
Dean Acheson
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means is missed. Unless the observer is trained to a certain degree in the artistic idiom, he is apt to search for things which have little to do with the aesthetic content of a picture. He is likely to look for pure representational values when the emphasis is really upon music-like relationships. View quote
Hans Hofmann
It's true that old actors don't die, their parts get smaller. You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you're playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around. View quote
Albert Finney