Quotes About Unlikely

Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.

Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

It was much simpler for him to judge Miss Bart by her habitual conduct than by the rare deviations from it which had thrown her so disturbingly in his way; and every act of hers which made the recurrence of such deviations more unlikely confirmed the sense of relief with which he returned to the conventional view of her.

People who watch 'Fox News,' you may say, and this is anecdotal, but they are passionate about it. In the most unlikely places, like down in Soho where I used to live, people would come up to me and thank me for it. People I didn't know from a bar of soap. People appreciate that at least they're being heard. It is much more watchable.

His mother's position was that his father could come back and live with them again as soon as he grew up, but not until. His father had predicted that his mother would kiss his ass before he'd ever walk through that door again. Both of these, Lin had concluded, were highly unlikely events.

That sounded about as likely as Apophis and Ra becoming Facebook buddies, but I decided not to say anything.

The reason she had taken the long way round was on the unlikely chance that she might engineer an accidental meeting with Benjamin Cole.

War did indeed make strange bedfellows of people.

You think the jellyfish ate her?" "Bones and all?" "We're talking about a tentacled flying lamp fucker, Dave. What are you prepared to call unlikely?

But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world, and there's incredible acts of kindness and bravery and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predictable of calamities.

She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But—here comes the big but—not impossible.

I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But — and here comes the big "but" — it is not impossible.

Heavens," I said. "Integrity?" "One finds it in the most unlikely places," Frampton said. "Even, now and then, in law firms." "I'm heartened," I said.

You eliminate everything, and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the answer.

Bebe Kincaid, a plump, gray-haired woman who was the most unlikely employee of his company, SEAL Demolition and Salvage.

The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.

It is particularly important to stress that possibilities which seem very unlikely to contemporaries often get realised. (p. 266)

I think it's very human, the hope that an all-encompassing love will change us into someone else, someone better. That this hope usually turns out to be false makes it no less human; the world is full of hopes far more unlikely than being transformed by love.

The good news is that Kong can't be too far ahead of us, so it is unlikely he had time to set up any traps either.

This is quite unlikely to happen to Linux

Maybe this was what the media was calling "desperate euphoria"—the we're-all-doomed-but-anything-can-happen feeling that had begun to peak around the time Wun went public. The end of the world, plus Martians: given that, what was impossible? What was even unlikely? And where did that leave the standard arguments in favor of propriety, patience, virtue, and not rocking the boat?

God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world.

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.