Improbable Quotes

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.

I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.

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

No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.

The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results.

I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.

Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable.

Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette.

One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos.

There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery, but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very, very improbable.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways.

Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.

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

Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it.

Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story.

That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

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

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!

I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Publicity is the very soul of justice.

It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.