Quotes About Likely

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

The longer the service tenure of an employee in a single private organization, the bigger the duffer that person is most likely to be.

Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh. And

It seemed to them dreadfully dangerous to put it into words like that, for lately the things they didn't want to happen were the things that happened and the logic of this was that if you pretended not to want what you really wanted dreadfully you would be more likely to get it.

An Anglo-German clash was not preordained; but a German decision to launch a naval arms race was the one thing most likely to bring one about.

The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.

Needing and getting don't seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.

Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.

What's on them, I wonder. What would be up there on things like that?' I nudged him hard, saying: 'Come, gloopy bastard as thou art. Think thou not on them. There'll be life like down here most likely, with some getting knifed and others doing the knifing.

It is more than possible; it is probable.

By most military experts' projections, Russia is a likely source of nuclear armaments for Jihadists.

them. Experience suggested such places were more likely to harbor danger than supplies. Not that the

But fear and danger aren't always directly proportional. We're all terrified by rattlesnakes, but the spider we brush off our sleeve with hardly a thought is far more likely to hurt us.

In other words, a serious crisis of nonrenewable energy resources is likely to accelerate the urbanization trend, not derail it.

is, even a person who has been seriously injured by an unconstitutional police practice cannot sue to enjoin its use unless the individual can show that he or she is likely to be subjected to it again.

My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.

As for the other three, they have made off into some hiding place, and are not likely to trouble you again in the same way now that they realize that I am within call.

I am not a post-liberal and I do not think that such a return to full 19th-century anticlericalism inevitable or even likely - which is one reason among many that I doubt the bargain many religious conservatives have made with Donald Trump.

If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.

Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.

It could be said that just about anyone we encounter is our neighbor, but it especially applies to those we would be least likely to love.

America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent.

The system was designed to reduce the randomness of voter contact, to make sure the volunteers and field staff concentrated their efforts on those most likely to vote for Trump.