Quotes About Likelihood

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.

Possibility is possible till it becomes Possible

The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.

I think the likelihood that combustion will continue to represent the large portion of the power unit world is very small.

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.

If there's a 50/50 chance that a forecast will go wrong, nine times out of ten it will.

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

I think it's quite unlikely that I'll be the leader of the Green party going into a future election if it's on anything like a four-year timing.

We should not mislead the Iraqis into thinking they have unlimited time to reach a settlement. The longer they think that, the less likely they will be to act.

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

There's a sort of unwritten rule that the more elaborate the task is, the less likely it is to work. If we spend a lot of money on a big prop, it almost certainly won't make it.

The likelihood of success drops dramatically when you expand, especially in the services business. And there's a lot of capital that goes into opening another office.

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable

Statistically, almost nobody ever wins the lottery. Statistically, terrorist attacks almost never happen.

teacher was almost two times more likely to drop out than a student.

All of the information that we were getting up to that time from the NRC people, from our people who knew something about nuclear power, was that the breach of the core was not a likelihood to happen.

By demonstrating generosity and trust, you drastically increase the likelihood of making them a client, not to mention proving to them that you can help them.

The operation, performed on an immensely obese, timid patient, was far more intricate than they had expected; yet finally it was done, and not only was it successful in itself, but there was a real likelihood that the man might live.

WHAT CAN BE DONE to kick-start or perhaps just facilitate the process of empowerment and thus the development of inclusive political institutions? The honest answer of course is that there is no recipe for building such institutions. Naturally there are some obvious factors that would make the process of empowerment more likely to get off the ground.

All of this is really impossible, in the way that it is really impossible that monkeys should by chance type out a copy of Hamlet.

If you decide on a goal - for example, 'I'm going to write a novel' or 'I'm going to run a 10K' - your subconscious will formulate the likelihood of that happening based on past experiences.

"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom"