Top 1200 Likely Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

If you're remarkable it's likely that some people won't like you.

When you're afraid of failure you're more likely to do it.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.

The unexpected is always likely to happen.

Many young women are less whole and androgynous than they were at age ten. They are more appearance-conscious and sex-conscious. They are quieter, more fearful of holding strong opinions, more careful what they say and less honest. They are more likely to second-guess themselves and to be self-critical. They are bigger worriers and more effective people pleasers. They are less likely to play sports, love math and science and plan on being president. They hide their intelligence. Many must fight for years to regain all the territory they lost.

I'm the shyest megalomaniac you're ever likely to meet.

God is love? Not bloody likely.

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.

If I had to put a percentage on it - I'd say not likely.

The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.

When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.

I'm not going to do anything that sees a Tory government be likely.

There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.

How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.

The longer you commute the less happy you're likely to be.

When you already have a following, people are more likely to employ you.

They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

What seems most likely is generally true.

A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end of my existence, with no successor existence of any kind that can be related to me as I now am. And if that is not the case, the next most likely scenario, it seems to me, is something along the lines indicated by Schopenhauer. But neither of these is what I most want. What I want to be true is that I have an individual, innermost self, a soul, which is the real me and which survives my death. That too could be true. But alas, I do not believe it.

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

People who expect to feel guilty tend to be more sympathetic, to put themselves into other people's shoes, to think about the consequences of their behaviour before acting, and to treasure their morals. As a result they are less prone to lie, cheat or behave immorally when they conduct a business deal or spot an opportunity to make money, studies suggest. They are also likely to make better employees because people who think less about the future results of their actions are more likely to be late, to steal or to be rude to clients.

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

The worst is likely to be behind us.

Miss a putt for $2,000? Not likely!

People who have no stake in society are the least likely to have respect for it.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.

People were actually 6 times more likely to buy a jar of jam if they had encountered 6 than if they encountered 24, so what we learned from this study was that while people were more attracted to having more options, that's what sort of got them in the door or got them to think about jam, when it came to choosing time they were actually less likely to make a choice if they had more to choose from than if they had fewer to choose from.

Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the species homo sapiens - ourselves. There is nothing about our ancestral line or about our current biology that dictates how we will evolve in the future. Nothing in the natural order demands that our descendants resemble us in any particular way. Very likely, they will not resemble us. We will almost certainly transform ourselves, likely beyond recognition, in the generations to come.

The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

If your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

A girl what's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

I was, am, and likely forever will be a huge mess.

We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.

When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities. When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They're less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through.

I should say we know that there are many, many other Earths out there. We're almost certain that there will be upwards of a billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone, so there is no lack of real estate where life might happen, but what we don't know is how likely it is given the real estate, given a wonderful pristine planet like Earth how likely is it that life will pop up inhabited? We don't know the answer to that.

It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is even less likely that many people will stop having children. By contrast, it is quite likely that my views either will be ignored or will be dismissed. As this response will account for a great deal of suffering between now and the demise of humanity, it cannot plausibly be thought of as philanthropic. That is not to say that it is motivated by any malice towards humans, but it does result from a self-deceptive indifference to the harm of coming into existence.

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

One thing about the past. It's likely to last.

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

If you think you can fall, you're more likely to.

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means by which health is likely to be lost and, when lost, is likely to be restored back to health. In other words, it is the art whereby health is conserved and the art whereby it is restored after being lost. While some divide medicine into a theoretical and a practical [applied] science, others may assume that it is only theoretical because they see it as a pure science. But, in truth, every science has both a theoretical and a practical side.

If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.

Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less likely to bite than to bark, less likely to bark than to lick a hand in greeting. In spite of their size, they think they are lap dogs, and in spite of being dogs, they think they are also human, and nearly every human they meet is judged to have the potential to be a boon companion who might, at many moment, cry, "Let's go!" and lead them on a great adventure.

I'm not saying all men are likely to cheat.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

Where there are two bugs, there is likely to be a third.

If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.