quotes about Improbable

last updated: November 28, 2023

Improbable things happen a lot...
-- Jordan Ellenberg

Source : "Did Nate Silver Actually Get Anything Wrong?". Interview with Leon Neyfakh, www.slate.com. May 17, 2016.

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Peace is impossible, war is improbable.
-- Raymond Aron

Source : Raymond Aron (1997). “Thinking Politically: A Liberal in the Age of Ideology”, p.227, Transaction Publishers

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The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible.
-- Tessa Jowell

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“You would quit the Order for her? Niko asked, the youngest only behind Dante, and a warrior who relished his duty perhaps even more than Dante had himself. I would quit breathing for her, if she asked it of me.”
“My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.”
“Crime is rampant. We even steal away from responsibility.”
“In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.”
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'”
“Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby.”
“Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.”

Source : Stanley Cavell (1981). “Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage”, p.259, Harvard University Press
“No one knows ish about ish, though some ish does get much closer to the real ish.”

Source : Linh Dinh (2017). “Postcards from the End of America”, p.41, Seven Stories Press
“Most people don't need to work as hard as I do.”
“It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth”