Likely Quotes

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

I always think, look at how people were before they were pregnant. If you were a toned, healthy, energetic person, most likely you will be like that again.

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

In a way I think Bill Clinton is more likely to forgive and move on or at least try to woo people who don't love him. But he never really tried to woo the press as much as he might have.

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.