Top 1200 Likely Quotes & Sayings - Page 14
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Once we start thinking of ourselves as polluted, there is not much incentive to behave well, and the trip down the slippery slope is likely.
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
He'll likely be remembered as a political figure, but I don't recall Andrew Breitbart ever mentioning electoral politics. It bored him.
The longer you're stuck in a position that doesn't truly challenge you, the less likely you'll be able to leave it. Inertia, in fact, is one of my worst fears.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.
We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.
Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.
I’ll be damned,” he muttered.“Most likely.” She folded the blanket with efficient snaps. “And I may be joining you, after what we just did.
When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or label it as bad.
People who continue to nurture long-term and new friendships as they grow older are more likely to enjoy health and vitality.
I believe that 20-somethings would be more likely to embrace experimentation - and provide additional value - if they felt safe to do so.
Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
Go for the girl who can eat a proper meal. If she's passionate about food, you'll most likely be fortunate in other venues.
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.
We prefer to find mates who are roughly as attractive as we are, which means they are more likely to stay and not look for a better offer.
To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.
I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.
Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.
[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.
In general, there will likely be an expanding market around mobility management services that could offer incremental job growth.
Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing.
You're more likely to see someone fatally struck by lightning than witness a case of in-person voter fraud.
Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.
Everybody is likely to make mistakes at times but it's important we learn from it, apologise, recognise where you've gone wrong and keep improving.
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.
Lowering the middle-class tax rate... will likely lower work efforts and increase government dependence.
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.
Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.
The bottom-line message of history is that if you're doubling and tripling your money in record time, you're also more likely to lose it all.
It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.
Parents can offer their help by suggesting and locating resources likely to be unfamiliar to children, such as people, books, andmaterials that can be useful.
In high school I was voted the girl most likely to become a nun. That may not be impressive to you, but it was quite an accomplishment at the Hebrew Academy.
Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.
Violent ideologies can proliferate and spread; threats are no longer contained by borders and oceans; and adversaries are as likely to be found in cyberspace as on the battlefield.
In my view, a united Ireland is inevitable, and it is certainly more likely than a voluntary coalition which doesn't include Sinn Fein.
It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.
The pro-E.U. campaign is all too likely to be based on a fear of the unknown because in most people's lifetime, we have never been out of the E.U.
Decisions made centrally, thousands of miles from the markets clients are operating in, will likely not be as attuned to local market realities.
Once you can clearly describe what you are reacting to, free of your interpretation or evaluation of it, other people are less likely to be defensive when they hear it.
Richard Hadlee has the appearance of a rickety church steeple and a severe manner which suggests that women are not likely to be ordained yet.
If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?
If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.
Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
When I broke my arm at the Commonwealth Games three years ago, I was advised that my sporting career had likely reached its end.
It could be said that just about anyone we encounter is our neighbor, but it especially applies to those we would be least likely to love.
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
It's also very important in Latin America. If we can deal with the drug problem there, some of their strife there, it's less likely we have immigration problems here.
The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.
Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.
The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.
From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.
Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow.
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.
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.
I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
