A Quote by Roald Dahl

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

Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl
British - Novelist
September 13, 1916 - November 23, 1990

So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No," I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely." At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Richard P. Feynman

I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.

Orson Scott Card

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.

Roald Dahl

Maybe one of the jobs of theory or philosophy is to elevate principles that seem impossible, or that have the status of the impossible, to stand by them and will them, even when it looks highly unlikely that they'll ever be realised. But that's ok, it's a service.

Judith Butler

Highly unlikely but not impossible.

Suzanne Collins

When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

Bob Schaffer

I always say nothing you can imagine is totally impossible. It might be unlikely, but that's as far as I'll go.

Emily Rodda

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

William Shakespeare

Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.

Hugh Nibley

I'm very good at deconstructing. I'm a very good troubleshooter for why something is unlikely to work. And most everything is unlikely to work.

Robert Downey, Jr.

People of dua are optimistic by definition. They know that dua and thoughts like 'unlikely' or 'impossible' don't coexist.

Nouman Ali Khan

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

Herbert Marcuse

Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing

Muhammad Ali

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

Tina Fey

Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.

Stefan Zweig

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