#probable

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. ↗

— Barack Obama

#america #barack #barrier #believing #blessed

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#city #culture #even #great #great city

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#become #first #impossible #improbable #inevitable

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#eventually #first #impossible #improbable #inevitable

I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country. ↗

— John Sevier

#any #arms #army #being #called

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#advantageous #both #civilized #come #condition

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it. ↗

— George Stoneman

#altogether #california #embrace #first #get

It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something's up, maybe you gotta take a look. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#comes #down #gotta #look #maybe

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#became #before #died #extinct #father

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#briefly #defined #faith #illogical #improbable