Quotes About Likelihood

A dice maker agreed with Scarne: "Once in a blue moon you might find a single store die that classes as a perfect, but the chance of finding two of them in a box of 60 and the chance that they would both be sold to the same purchaser as a pair is so small you can forget about it. It never happened.

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

Our chances are always pretty good

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

Where there's possibility there is also hope.

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

When I feel risk-averse, I am much more likely to surround myself with middle-aged, professional, southern females; I just am.

ONE OF THE MOST important aspects of what human beings do is build beliefs. Beliefs are what trap most people in their problems. Unless you believe you can get over something, get through something, or get to something, there is little likelihood you will be able to do it. Your beliefs refer to your sense of certainty on some of your thoughts.

It's been my experience that worse-case scenarios are very rare indeed. Rare to the extend that you can almost count on them not happening.

A theoretical chance. Atlas Brookings may make a big thing of it, but it's less than two percent. That's all. Their intake of unlifteds is less than two percent.

There is always the possibility that people will change. Real change is more rare. You are who you are at a certain age in life you are pretty much a variation of that your whole life. It's conceivable that you will change but it's not likely.

The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.

Tad's mission in life is to have more fun than anyone else in New York City, and this involves a lot of moving around, since there is always the likelihood that where you aren't is more fun than where you are.

If she hasn't learned to appreciate my sterling character and spectacular good looks by this time, it's not likely she will.

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.

Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.

It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big but--not impossible.

Based on the law of probability, everything is possible because the sheer existence of possibility confirms the existence of impossibility.

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

You know," Ghastly said to Skulduggery, "for someone who hates plans, you've got an awful lot of them." "Well, yes," Skulduggery replied, "but really, the likelihood of any of them actually working is extraordinarily slim.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

For instance, "For men, prolonged exposure to work-related stress has been linked to an increased likelihood of lung, colon, rectal, and stomach cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma."36 Moreover, we are increasingly understanding the mechanisms linking stress to disease.

I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it.

I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow less likely to happen.