Zitat des Tages über Unwahrscheinlich / Improbable:
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.
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 world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
Remember, I'm someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible. I'm afraid that's exactly what I love doing.
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
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.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
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.
I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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.
In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.
That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
I love when stories have something a little magical in them, and there's wonder and curiosity. Somewhere there are people living these improbable stories, and our job is to go out and find them and bring them to the page. And so, the more surprising, the more uplifting, the more sort of even inspiring a story is, I find myself gripped by those.
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
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.