Likeliest Quotes

#1. We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls.

Timothy Noah

#2. None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.

Edmund Crispin

#3. The likeliest outcome is that you win your love for just a little while, and then regret his loss forever.

Kai Ashante Wilson

#4. The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.

Robert Breault

#5. In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.

David Foster Wallace

#6. I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity.

Kristen Johnston

#7. Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God's.

Val McDermid

#8. Be an advocate for your loved ones in the hospital. Ask tough questions of your local hospital and health system about preparedness for the likeliest emergencies, and express your views on how medical resources should be allocated in case they ever fall short.

Sheri Fink

#9. Fridays were the only days of the week that Sani came in the morning because of the free breakfast served by Alhaji's household. Fridays were also the likeliest of days to get gift items like hand-me-down clothes, shoes or even the occasional yards of new Shedda materials.

Ayibu Makolo

#10. It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

Rachel Caine

#11. Once the travel guide came out and won an award, once I got an MFA in creative writing, once I sold my next novel, I finally started telling people that I was a writer. I remember how special that year felt.

James Bernard Frost

#12. I appreciate folks asking for my autograph.

Wolfman Jack

#13. That's how birthdays were in our house. All hateful charades of pretty clothes, expensive presents, and ugly words . . .

Debbie Howells

#14. I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

Elton John

#15. Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don't light candles in the middle of the day, do you?

Joe Abercrombie

#16. At festivals there's always one spectator from Egypt who says, 'I like it, it moved me, reminds me of so many things.' I get a lot of reaction from the Arab world at fests. But the percentage of people from the Arab world who like it should be the same as anywhere else.

Eran Kolirin

#17. At least Madame Selena had her own building ... about sixteen inches from the edge of the highway, but still. And she had a turban. Say what you will, but it certainly added an air of mystery to her, like what, exactly, she was hiding under it.

Stacey Kade

#18. Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.

John Bytheway

#19. When I'm playing best, I'm just thinking about the music, just interacting with what my bandmates are playing.

Greg Saunier

#20. When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.

Hillary Clinton

#21. Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

Jock Sturges

#22. I do believe in sending positive messages. I am a Christian, so I do believe in a lot of positive messages.

Quinton Aaron

#23. I have a mustard seed and I'm not afraid to use it!

Pope Benedict XVI