Likely Quotes - page 9

Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, "Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by monsters.” More likely she'd scold him, or mistake them for intruders and chase them off with a frying pan. (Rick Riordan)
That sounded about as likely as Apophis and Ra becoming Facebook buddies, but I decided not to say anything. View quote
Rick Riordan
As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician. View quote
Andrew Weil
Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well. View quote
Andrew Weil
Just as with homicide, those in the 'passion' category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately available - those that are easy and quick. View quote
Scott Anderson
...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic. View quote
Sonja Lyubomirsky
The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased. View quote
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic. View quote
Sonja Lyubomirsky
People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions. View quote
Sonja Lyubomirsky
It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then. View quote
Steven Johnson
You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ... Nothing is more likely,' said the duke. (Susanna Clarke)
Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning. View quote
William Goldman
Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far. View quote
William Landay
I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way. View quote
Anthony Horowitz
Women have a better sense of smell than men do, and it's even sharper in the middle of their menstrual cycle, when estrogen levels peak and women are more likely to be deciding whether a man's attractive. View quote
Helen Fisher
The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities. View quote
Helen Fisher
When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine. View quote
Ben Goldacre
Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat. View quote
Bethenny Frankel
The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love. (Bruce D. Perry)
All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way? View quote
Garth Stein
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. View quote
Greg Anderson
The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail. View quote
Dan Ariely
Scientists are just as vulnerable to wishful thinking, just as likely to be tempted by base motives, just as venal and gullible and forgetful as the rest of humankind. Scientists don't consider themselves to be saints; they don't even pretend to be priests (who according to tradition are supposed to do a better job than the rest of us at fighting off human temptation and frailty). Scientists take themselves to be just as weak and fallible as anybody else, but recognizing those very sources of error in themselves and in the groups to which they belong, they have devised elaborate systems to tie their own hands, forcibly preventing their frailties and prejudices from infecting their results. View quote
Daniel Dennett