Quotes About Unlikely

In the highly unlikely event that the 'Telegraph' was to be sold again, then 'The Spectator' doesn't go with it.

I love the individual characters that cricket produces and, more than most other sports, the unlikely heroes.

I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.

Sweet dreams." Elena gave her a blank look. "That seems very unlikely.

Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.

Maybe then I will remember that, although history repeats itself and we always fall, and I am a carrier of history whose brief excursion into time leaves no mark, I have known something worth knowing, wild and unlikely and against every rote.

He can't tell him about me, though," said Turtle. "Or if he does, Darkstalker won't hear it. My enchantment hides me completely from him." I hope. I hope I hope I hope. If I did it right. Which seems unlikely, knowing me. Ack. "That's clever," said Qibli. "How did you think of that?" "I used this brainstorming method called pure terror," Turtle admitted. "It wasn't so much clever as deeply cowardly.

If a writer rewrites an essay, people who read the new version are unlikely to complain that their thoughts have been broken by some newly introduced incompatibility.

In the eighth American-educational grade, Bruce Green fell dreadfully in love with a classmate who had the unlikely name of Mildred Bonk. The name was unlikely because if ever an eighth-grader looked like a Daphne Christianson or a Kimberly St.-Simone or something like that, it was Mildred Bonk.

Aron's conclusion was an epigram: "Peace impossible, war unlikely.

'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater.

Earth to Dexter," Astor said, and I realized that I still stood in front of them frozen in my unlikely, foolish openmouthed pose like a pedantic zombie.

Happily for me, Deborah came back just then, muttering, "I will never complain about the captain again." That seemed highly unlikely, but it did not seem politic to say so. "He can have those bloodsucking bastards from the press." "Maybe you're just not a people person," I said.

dumbfounded , adj . And still, for all the jealousy, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could findsomeone like you — it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turnof events.

She was not so swept away that she could not see the high comedy of this spiritual seduction: a Litvinoff daughter, a third-generation atheist, an enemy of all forms of magical thinking, wandering into synagogue one day and finding her inner Jew. But there it was. Something had happened to her, something she could not ignore or deny. And there was a sense in which its unlikelihood, its horrible inconvenience, was precisely what made it so compelling.

Improbability is no barrier to gossip.

Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.

As a curator, I've met endless people who feel a 'special connection' with Anne Boleyn, or Victorian prostitutes, or various other unlikely candidates.

Everyone had said from the beginning that the earl of Westcliff and a brash American heiress were the most improbable pairing imaginable. But before long Lillian had discovered that beneath Marcus's outward reserve, there was a man of passion, tenderness, and humor. And for his part, Marcus had seemed to enjoy her irreverence and high-spirited nature.

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.

There's been a lot on my mind, I replied. It seems unlikely that your cares will lighten, Queen Mab replied. Improve your mind.

God does not seek the people most outwardly capable, nor the most naturally "good." He works with the most unlikely material so that everyone can see the glory is his and his alone.

It wasn't a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance.