Top 1200 Unlikely Heroes Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.

I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.

My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

What we are unlikely to do as a leading brand space is just buy revenue or partnership with hotels.

An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.

Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum.

In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. Of the ones still alive, I can think of E.B. White. I certainly admire the pure, crystal stream of his prose. When I was very young as a sportswriter I knowingly and unashamedly imitated others. I had a series of heroes who would delight me for a while and I'd imitate them--Damon Runyon, Westbrook Pegler, Joe Williams.

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.

Business and leadership is about the future. What worked five years ago is unlikely to work tomorrow.

'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

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

Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they'll be ones that other people want to read about, too.

It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely.

I'd most prefer to be a free agent and fight up to six times a year, but that is unlikely.

Robin could be a backup, to maybe Tim Duncan. That's cool. It's possible, probably unlikely, but it's his dream.

How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.

The conflict in the Middle East is complex, multi-faceted, and unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.

The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.

It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

When I left home, my mum said "Don't forget to write", I thought, "That's unlikely"... It's a basic skill isn't it.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

The most exciting songs to me are the unlikely hits, when you think, 'I love this, but why is it on the radio?'

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

Black History Month is dedicated to heroes that paved the way for Black people. It's a month that's very imperative because it gives those who lack the knowledge of our heroes a chance to gain insight. It's not just about the month, it's about the years that it took for us to get to this one month and it's beyond placing a value on how much Black History Month really means to me.

In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.

I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.

It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.

Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

Our process inside the United States government has gotten much better at making sure we touch all possible source of information about a refugee. The interview process has gotten more robust, so we've gotten our act together in that respect. The challenge remains, especially with respect to folks coming from Syria, we're unlikely to have anything in our holdings. That is, with people coming from Iraq, the United States government was there for a very long period of time. We had biometrics, we had source information. We're unlikely to have that kind of picture about someone coming from Syria.

America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.

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.

Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William Welch its John the Baptist, while Paracelsus and Cohnheim have been relegated to the roles of Lucifer and Beelzebub. ... Actually, there are no heroes in Pathology-all of the great thoughts permitting advance have been borrowed from other fields, and the renaissance of pathology stems not from pathology itself but from the philosophers Kant and Goethe.

Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.

As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.

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

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

My dream is to try to reach as many kids and readers who might need an unlikely hero to connect to.

We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need?

I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

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

Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, .. most unlikely.

Love is ever where the heart will find it no matter how unlikely seems the place.

Not long after I got my test pilot qualification, I realised there was no manned space flight programme in the U.K., and there was unlikely to be one.