Unlikely People Quotes

#1. It seemed unlikely, but then, from what little I remembered, they shad been unlikely people.

Neil Gaiman

#2. God takes highly unlikely people, takes them into highly unlikely places, gives them a highly unlikely strategy,and gives them a highly unlikely outcome.

Christine Caine

#3. the most unlikely people can become saviours in dark times, and the small kindnesses they offer can matter like life and death.

Emma Garcia

#4. When you think you're alone, when you think there's no one in this world who'll stand up for you, look around and make sure you're right. Friends can appear in the most unlikely people, and are often right in front of you.

Richard Thornton

#5. Sometimes our dreams are affirmed in the most unlikely ways by the most
unlikely people. That's why we need to speak our commitment out loud.

Gina Greenlee

#6. There is nothing more valuable then God's widsom. HIS teachers are sometimes the most unlikely people.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. Nobody is as they seem, I remind myself. Rich talents hide in unlikely people.

Susan Gabriel

#8. Often it was the most unlikely people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. It was probably always there, but most people are never tested, and they go through their whole lives without ever knowing that when things are at their worst, they are at their best.

Jonathan Maberry

#9. When circumstances are right, unlikely people do extraordinary things.

Robin Hobb

#10. Chemistry could sparkle in z most surprising places and between z most unlikely people.

Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

#11. The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

Philip Yancey

#12. Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.

Raymond Arroyo

#13. People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative products is limited in this regard.

John Harvey-Jones

#14. Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

Alexander Kluge

#15. The apologists for the medium claim that all sorts of interesting information is provided by television. This is true, but as it is much easier to produce programs that titillate rather than elevate the viewer, what most people watch is unlikely to help in developing the self.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#16. The vast majority of people do not have, nor will they ever have a personal computer. They haven't been exposed to Windows or Office, or anything like that, and in their lives it's unlikely that they will.

Stephen Elop

#17. It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings.

Stuart J. Russell

#18. The things that make our lives are so tenuous, so unlikely, that we barely come into being, barely meet the people we're meant to love, barely find our way in the woods, barely survive catastrophe every day.

Rebecca Solnit

#19. The trick to doing things people say are impossible is confidence. As long as you seem to know what you're doing, and never hesitate, you're very unlikely to face any challenges. People don't like to break illusions, even when they don't know that's what they're looking at. - Kevin Price

Seanan McGuire

#20. People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

Peter Drucker

#21. Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.

Moss Hart

#22. God has often given His people favor in the sight of heathen masters (as Joseph and Daniel), and has magnified the sufficiency of His grace by preserving their souls in the midst of the most unpromising environments. His saints are found in very unlikely places.

Arthur W. Pink

#23. People who grow up without a sense of how yesterday has affected today are unlikely to have a strong sense of how today affects tomorrow. They are unlikely to understand in a bone-deep way how the decisions they make now will shape and affect their future.

William Kirk Kilpatrick

#24. I knew I seemed a fairly unlikely candidate for an adventure into the unknown. And secretly I doubted that I had what it took, whatever it took, to head off alone to a country most people had never heard of. In light of this, my determination to go puzzled me.

Jamie Zeppa

#25. If a writer rewrites an essay, people who read the new version are unlikely to complain that their thoughts have been broken by some newly introduced incompatibility.

Paul Graham

#26. People of dua are optimistic by definition. They know that dua and thoughts like 'unlikely' or 'impossible' don't coexist.

Nouman Ali Khan

#27. So you're a reader," My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.

Denis Markell

#28. I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

Brian Molko

#29. People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance.

Mark Haddon

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

Geoff Capes

#31. People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.

B.R. Myers

#32. There is no practice more vexing than that of authors describing coach travel for the edification of people who have already travelled in coaches. As I must adhere to form, however, I will simply list a series of phrases for the unlikely reader who has never gone anywhere:

Lyndsay Faye

#33. Seems like people could behave themselves without making a calculation regarding how likely or unlikely they are to kill other people.

Robert James Thomson

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

Mark Galli

#35. How do people make the judgments and how do they assign decision weights? We start from two simple answers, then qualify them. Here are the oversimplified answers: People overestimate the probabilities of unlikely events. People overweight unlikely events in their decisions.

Daniel Kahneman

#36. Every good story needs a good, bad and lost soul. A people to fight for, an item to turn the tide of battle, an enigmatic character, a motivator/mentor, and an unlikely reluctant hero.

Josh Rose

#37. It's true that monetary policy was too lax for too long, and the government encouraged lending to people who were unlikely to repay their loans.

Paul Singer

#38. That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#39. If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed.

Ridley Scott

#40. I learned by observation that people who pursued extraordinarily unlikely goals were overly optimistic at best, delusional at worst, and just plain stupid most of the time.

Scott Adams

#41. Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.

Shannon L. Alder

#42. 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.

Michael Bloomberg

#43. If turning from your sins means to stop sinning, then people can only be saved if they stop sinning. And it is unlikely that anyone has ever been saved, since we don't know anyone who has ever stopped sinning.

Curtis Hutson

#44. I shook my head. "You're going to get killed"Lucius shot me a conspiratorial look. "You, of all people, should know that's unlikely. Animals can't use tools.

Beth Fantaskey

#45. Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.

Hilary Mantel

#46. The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply. Eating regularly is a non-negotiable activity and countries that cannot feed their people are unlikely to be reasonable about it.

Gwynne Dyer

#47. Human uploads have such a natural advantage over present-day people in the environment of space, it's exceedingly unlikely flesh-and-blood beings will ever engage in interstellar travel.

Frank Tipler

#48. Combinations of people, who should have nothing to say to each other. Yet, with hearts that do not recognize it.

Tracy Rees

#49. Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.

Hugh Mackay

#50. E-readers are changing the way we read, and the author is now required to get out there and be a kind of showman, an unlikely role for introspective people used to working in their pajamas!

Caroline Leavitt

#51. If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

Seth Godin