#unlikely

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period. ↗

— David Gill

#day #dictated #eight #genuine #genuinely

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history. ↗

— William Thomas Green Morton

#decency #ethics #flaws #history #ironies

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#head #hundred #instant #only #reproduce

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. ↗

— Scott Adams

#behind #better #defines #humans #irrational

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#faults #first #may #motor #motor car

It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#going #harder #iraq #iraqis #more

I believe in the uncommon, the unusual and unlikely, even the miraculous.   I believe in nearly all things except impossibilities. That I can't fathom.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#determination #dreams #goals #impossibility #miracles

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

#around #awful #built #did #done

I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women. ↗

— John Bright

#does #granted #hope #i #may

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie. ↗

— Bill Condon

#character #movie #put #scientist #unlikely