Top 100 Quotes About Improbable
#1. It is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls.
Voltaire
#2. A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it.
Aristotle.
#3. It's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.
Craig L. Rice
#4. The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.
Al Gore
#5. When you start thinking that 'it is too high, it is too far away, it is too cold, it is too dangerous, it is too difficult, it is too improbable,' you lose your chance to reach your target! The golden road to your target and to all the targets is the idea that all is feasible!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. Something like laughter. That a flower could be this small, this fleeting, that a snowflake could be so large, so persistent. The improbable simplicity. I groaned. Why don't we have a word for the utterance between laughing and crying?
Peter Heller
#7. If you consider all the unpleasantness you encounter while you're alive, it seems improbable that it would all come to an end simply because you're dead.
Peter Hoeg
#8. Eliminate the impossible, and what ever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" - Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
#9. In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.
Horatio Nelson
#10. Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes ...
Kary Mullis
#11. It's a ridiculous book, filled with wicked fantasies and silly notions and improbable romance. But you ought to read the rest, just the same.'
'Why?'
'Because it has a happy ending.
Tessa Dare
#12. Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle.
#13. Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness
that is, the improbable
with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.
Emile M. Cioran
#14. It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures.
John Green
#15. Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#16. Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.
Daniel Berrigan
#17. No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a life out of the ordinary; and then it seems improbable like fiction.
William Gerhardie
#18. Today, in 2011, I'm giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration's improbable MVP in the technology realm.
Marvin Ammori
#19. Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
George Ade
#20. He splayed a hand out over the photographs, trembling fingers not quite touching the shiny surface, and then he turned and leaned toward me, slowly, with the improbable grace of a tall tree falling. He buried his face in my shoulder and went very quietly and thoroughly to pieces.
Diana Gabaldon
#21. The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas Adams
#22. The occurrence of a highly improbable event is the equivalent of the nonoccurrence of a highly probable one
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#23. Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.
Sean Connery
#24. When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#25. The wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#26. One should always be a little improbable.
Oscar Wilde
#27. With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
Aristotle.
#28. They did not realize that because of the quasi-reciprocal and circular nature of all Improbability calculations, anything that was Infinitely Improbable was actually very likely to happen almost immediately.
Douglas Adams
#29. It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.
Eduardo Galeano
#30. And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.
James Wolcott
#31. Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.
Stephen Jay Gould
#32. That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.
Arthur Brisbane
#33. Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.
Christopher Hitchens
#34. It is humor's job to laugh at the futility oft engendered by the improbable; but it is poetry's job to dream of the potentiality of that which is not impossible.
D.E. Navarro
#35. When you get rid of the impossible, what's left is the only answer, no matter how improbable.
Heather Graham
#36. I THE IDEA OF TRUST The Improbable Power of Culture in the Making of Economic Society
Francis Fukuyama
#37. I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.
Philip Kerr
#39. I have never seen any place on Earth as beautiful, improbable, and beautifully ridiculous as Australia. Whatever god or devil first conceived of the place deserves some sort of award, and possibly a smack in the head.
Seanan McGuire
#40. My grandmother's life had been one long opera. There had been drama, heroes, villains, improbable twists, all that. But most of all there had been love, great big waves of it, crashing ceaselessly against the rocks of life, bearing us all back to grace.
Alex George
#41. That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
Malcolm Gladwell
#42. Love was insanity at its most beautiful - a madness of desperation and desire that made the most improbable choice possible.
A Meredith Walters
#43. Whenever I hear someone make a highly improbable assumption, I always ask, "What's your second choice?
Tom Haikin
#44. Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable and marvelous of connections.
Jonathan Littell
#45. At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
Christopher Reeve
#46. The ship did. All by itself." "Huh?" "While we were in Improbability Drive." "But that's incredible." "No, Zaphod. Just very very improbable.
Douglas Adams
#47. The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities.
Terry Pratchett
#48. Explain to me again," he begged," why we are here."
She had told him once before; it had been like listening to a vivid, improbable dream.
Patricia A. McKillip
#49. There are numerous historical reports as well as visual images that link mushroom consumption to the ritual of sacrifice. These include bloodletting, penis perforation, and even the improbable act of self-decapitation.
John Rush
#51. Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead or that there is an invisible, omniscient moral intelligence present everywhere that has the highest tolerance for cruelty?
David Hayden
#52. I will only observe that every reality, even though it has its unalterable laws, is almost always difficult to believe and improbable, and sometimes, indeed, the more real it is the more improbable it is.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#53. We were very much in love - the wild, mysterious, improbable kind of love that never comes but once.
Raymond Chandler
#55. Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
Douglas Adams
#56. Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.
Kenneth Patchen
#57. Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.
Elizabeth Warren
#58. (that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.
Thomas Tredgold
#59. How improbable must a coincidence be before it's a sign?
David Mitchell
#60. The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.
Niklas Luhmann
#61. Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
William Arthur Ward
#62. We thought of [New York] as a free city, like one of those storied prewar tropical nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and lamsters and refugees found shelter in a tangle of improbable juxtapositions.
Luc Sante
#63. In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.
Elliott Abrams
#64. I should perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform you, and not to amuse you.
Jonathan Swift
#65. There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
Meryl Streep
#67. Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.
Mason Cooley
#68. Love is that as well, I was forgetting: it is taking a huge gamble, staking your all on a single improbable throw, jumping off a cliff and trusting an unknown person to catch you before you hit the ground.
A.P.
#69. Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Richard Dawkins
#70. The thing about fathers is that they are human. But, they stay bent on being heroes to their children, readily willing to give themselves up to effect improbable rescues.
Srini Chandra
#71. Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable
Oscar Wilde
#72. Well, I think," said Nobby, "that when you rule out the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, ain't worth hanging around for on a cold night wonderin' about when you could be getting on the outside of a big drink.
Terry Pratchett
#73. I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results.
Colin Blakemore
#74. I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
Richard Dawkins
#75. Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the possibility of living beyond what our lifetime allows us to.
Camilo Gomes Jr.
#76. And I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses. Of course, I had hoped that Peter
John Green
#77. But that's incredible." "No, Zaphod. Just very very improbable." "Er, yeah.
Douglas Adams
#78. It was exceedingly improbable that he would ever see the men again, but, as my father said, you never knew. Always worth approaching every man you met as if he might become your best friend in the world.
Jonathan Franzen
#79. It seems improbable, unless one knows how obstinately, purposefully and unerringly any stricken animal will find its way to the same place where in the past it has endured suffering and recovered.
Georgi Vladimov
#80. Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.
Diane Ackerman
#81. Omar realizes that the improbable fact of their survival also carries a hint of the divine. To be alive in this hole, against all odds, speaks to Omar of the existence of a higher power with some sort of plan for these still-living men.
Hector Tobar
#82. It's fiction, the improbable is very probable in my worlds
H.Q. Frost
#83. Through the eyes of men an utterly irrational birth followed by a terribly improbable execution are miscues of the most pathetic sort. And all I can say is that I'm immeasurably thankful that I've been given access to the eyes of God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#84. Look with complete innocence at the infinitely improbable thing before you.
Aldous Huxley
#85. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.
Ray Bradbury
#86. It's the only choices we have. You eliminate everything, and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the answer.
Kim Harrison
#87. What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part - there was no one to blame and no way to reverse
Miranda July
#88. Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#89. Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable - more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.
Judith Hooper
#90. History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.
Emile M. Cioran
#91. Mrs Patch was all that she had hoped. She was an improbable blonde of uncertain years, with a very much painted face, a singularly penetrating voice, and a laugh which made Mablethorpe wince.
Georgette Heyer
#92. 'Thirteen Orphans' is the name of a specific limit hand. The same combination is also called 'Thirteen Improbable.' Once I'd decided I wanted to write a tale where mah-jong would be at the heart, I also knew I wanted to use limit hands.
Jane Lindskold
#93. The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred.
Ilya Prigogine
#94. Chase said, "It was a crazy idea." An impossible idea.
"Nothing is impossible, Chase, only improbable. And when you can see into the future and manipulate people into the right places, you can accomplish amazing things."
"I think I liked the idea better when it was in my head.
Adrienne Wilder
#95. In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.
Mercedes Lackey
#96. Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H.L. Mencken
#97. Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
Richard Dawkins
#98. What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.
L.M. Montgomery
#99. He says to land," Tharkay translated, with improbable brevity; at Laurence's frowning look he added, "and he calls us a great many impolite names; do you wish them all translated?
Naomi Novik
#100. The Improbable Is Not Impossible
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