Words matter. These are the best Improbable Quotes from famous people such as Philip Kerr, Stephen Jay Gould, Simon Beaufoy, Fabrizio Moreira, H. L. Mencken, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don’t like to do too much that’s improbable.
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
I have a huge admiration for the ability of people to go, ‘I don’t care if it can’t happen. I don’t care if you say it’s impossible. I am gonna do it anyway.’ I think it’s an amazing part of human nature. It feeds into faith and belief in human beings to not only do the improbable but almost the impossible.
For an entrepreneur with ‘improbable’ and ‘impossible’ dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting ‘a real job’ is nothing but a sign of slavery.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
Today, in 2011, I’m giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration’s improbable MVP in the technology realm.
At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn’t beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn’t an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
It’s far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.
Be proud of your heritage, and don’t be discouraged from the improbable.
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.
I am writing a book more improbable than ‘The Interrogative Mood’ that I call ‘Manifesto’. It’s two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.
Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost.
The ANC was the product of a much earlier South Africa, a gradualist and non-tribal multi-racial organisation, driven to violence by the intransigence of the Afrikaner Nationalist Government, obsessed with improbable ideas of revolution.
People would say it’s very improbable that I’d make it to this point in my life. I made it here because I wasn’t discouraged. I worked hard to get here, took advantage of every opportunity that I had.
It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intelligent life. Nevertheless, this is exactly what most physicists have believed: intelligent life is a purely serendipitous consequence of physical principles that have nothing to do with our own existence.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking – the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
