Improbabilities Quotes

#1. If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?

David Sedaris

#2. Each of the pathways to nuclear terrorism, when examined carefully, turns out to have gantlets of improbabilities.

Steven Pinker

#3. The potted plant could have been knocked over intentionally or accidentally, or maybe one of the animals that lived here broke it somehow.
I thought of the impossibilities and improbabilities. Jack would say that elves had broken it when they came to take me back to the wood.

Marta Acosta

#4. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.

Annie Dillard

#5. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. If creation had been left up to me, I'm sure I wouldn't have had the imagination or courage to do more than shape a single, reasonably sized atom, smooth as a snowball, and let it go at that.

Annie Dillard

#6. It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

Aristotle.

#7. Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#8. We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

Stephen Jay Gould

#9. On Writing: A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

#10. Miracles are statistical improbabilities. And fate is an illusion humanity uses to comfort itself in the dark. There are no absolutes in life, save death.

Amie Kaufman

#11. Shakespeare calls jealousy yellow and green; I think it may be called black and white for it most assuredly views white as black, and black as white. The most fanciful surmises wear the aspect of truth, the greatest improbabilities appear as consistent realities.

Mrs. Henry Wood

#12. The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial

Frank M. Ochberg

#13. It's funny how you call me a celebrity. Oh man.

Steven Hill

#14. Every time you do something that comes from your needs for acceptance, affirmation, or affection, and every time you do something that makes these needs grow, you know that you are not with God. These needs will never be satisfied; they will only increase when you yield to them.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#15. I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

Susannah McCorkle

#16. I know now that it is going to be a tough and long road ahead of me

Susan Smith

#17. Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Banger... I am playing that role... and I can't say how long I am going to be in this role.

Deyth Banger

#18. I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.

Feist

#19. There is an old phrase, 'hiding in plain sight.' This is where we find the loved one we miss so much. All we need to do is open our eyes, our minds, and our hearts.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#20. IN A WORLD WHERE BUNNIES RUN WILD

Anne Eliot

#21. The aquatic environment must be safeguarded by men. God created mankind to care for the environment and all the living resources.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Calvin Coolidge