Quotes About Likely

Fieldwork is probably always more likely to be holistic than lab work or mathematical modeling because in the field you can't get away from the whole when a research project starts.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Yours is a holy calling," he told her. "Or a useless one." "Perhaps," he said, ever the optimist. "Perhaps." Then he embraced her again and departed. It was, the archivist suddenly realized, the last human contact she was likely to ever have.

Do you know Eastern proverbs? "Unskilled guns, but... The more guns, the likely they will hit..." I've got plenty of Akuma to go around.

Adding the because makes these matters far more plausible, and far more likely.

Taiwan isn't simply the source of the advanced chips that both countries' militaries are betting on. It's also the most likely future battleground.

Very often, people embarking on such guesswork make the vulgar assumption that the lower the motives, the more likely they are to be authentic.

Es ist nicht bewiesen, aber es ist wahrscheinlich und wenn es wahrscheinlich ist, dann war es wahrscheinlich so.

Unless people believe that the strategic challenge is attainable, the change is not likely to succeed.

Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken in most instances such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible.

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.

We're not taking odds on it," said Ender. "Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exists, and then it's certain. You exist.

The probable is what usually happens. ~ ARISTOTLE

Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes. I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the

I felt helpless to prevent her life from taking its likely direction. Could a person save another person?

coalitional dynamics would predict that whatever outsiders do is often little concern to fundamentalists. What matters is what other members of the group are likely to do.

If anything of the moment results — so much the better. And so much the more likely will it be that no one will want to see it.

Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.

But unsolicited advice is often deemed officious if not offensive, and therefore is quite as likely to do harm as good.

Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.

Happiness, of all myths the least likely.

On the one hand, a central part of this theory is the introduction of probability measures which describe what associations and deductions we are likely to make.

in statesmanship, too great a preoccupation to avoid the errors of the past makes it likely that you will fall into the errors of the present.

They were such an unlikely couple and there is such power in the relationship that never takes place in a permanent way, the mights romantically overwhelming all that likely would have been truth.