Nothing is black or white, nothing’s ‘us or them.’ But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There’s incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.
Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other’s perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.
If someone makes you feel wrong-footed, you’re unlikely to find them witty.
When my husband and I first became parents, we joked that our chubby baby was destined to grow into an Alex P. Keaton Reaganite – the most unlikely, and therefore hilarious, course for the child of an interracial gay couple in gentrifying Brooklyn.
I don’t think I’m a revolutionary, and I’d certainly be an unlikely one.
Some leaders think time will solve the problem. Their hope is that Assad’s regime will ultimately fall from the heavy toll of the horrors it has spawned. From past experience with such regimes, this scenario is unlikely to happen.
Donald Trump, unlikely Mitt Romney, is not awkward about his money. He has absolutely no qualms about saying, ‘I’m rich.’
Criminality being partially preordained may seem to let culprits off the hook. Yet it also makes the proclivity seem ineradicable and suggests that reform is unlikely: once a baddie, always a baddie.
It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.
It’s unrealistic to expect the person you go to for sage advice also to be the person you go out and have a good time with. And it’s unlikely that he or she will be the same person who’s pushing you and motivating you to do more every day, like a coach or manager does.
If we don’t like modern Britain, then it is very unlikely that modern Britain will like us.
Simply writing a Ph.D. or academic book was unlikely to play much of a role in helping shape people’s lives as I wanted.
In my view, airstrikes without an effective ground force are unlikely to make any meaningful contribution to defeating Isis.
I do think it’s probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you’re Lou Reed, you’re unlikely to become a country singer.
‘White Collar’ is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a sometimes very funny way.
The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the circumstances that led to my life, and in a way, I was introduced to how fragile and unlikely life is from the beginning.
If all you’re trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it’s unlikely that you’ll be very successful.
