Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Christopher Columbus
Ellen Glasgow
Pearl S. Buck
Emily Carr
Jane Austen
Vincent Van Gogh
All authors
Today's birthdays
1941 - George Will
1929 - Audrey Hepburn
1827 - John Hanning Speke
1975 - Kimora Lee Simmons
1968 - Julian Barratt
1998 - Rex Orange County
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Chef
Actor
Designer
Clergyman
Businesswoman
Actress
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Probable Quotes
Probable Quotes
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C. S. Lewis
Myself
Experience
World
Made
Find
No Experience
Most
Another
Probable
Which
Explanation
Satisfy
Desire
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle
Possibilities
Impossibilities
Improbable
Probable
Preferred
If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.
Elon Musk
Failure
You
Try
Important
Enough
Outcome
Something
Probable
Should
Even
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell
People
Achieve
Some
Temptation
Never
Felt
Genuinely
Sainthood
Saints
Probable
Human
Want
Human Beings
Much
Aspire
Who
Many
Beings
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.
Cecil Rhodes
World
Society
Secret
Rule
Saxon
States
Possible
Dream
Object
Anglo-Saxon
Recovery
Empire
Making
Probable
Form
Race
Should
Whole
United
Why
United States
Bringing
British
British Empire
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Rene Descartes
Power
Ought
Our
Follow
True
Most
Probable
You don't need any indictment in order to arrest someone; probable cause is sufficient to arrest civilians, so it must be enough to arrest police.
Al Sharpton
You
Police
Cause
Enough
Must
Indictment
Someone
Civilians
Arrest
Any
Probable
Order
Sufficient
Need
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
William Godwin
One Thing
Eminent
No-One
Importance
Learn
Child
Probable
Thing
In Ferguson, there are witnesses who say Brown had his hands up when he was shot. That should be enough probable cause to go to trial to then determine if Officer Wilson is guilty or not. It is at trial that he can then defend himself and his attorneys can present their own witnesses and their own defense.
Al Sharpton
Cause
Own
Defense
Enough
Trial
Say
Guilty
Wilson
Brown
Determine
Had
He
Attorneys
Himself
Witnesses
Go
His
Ferguson
Up
Officer
Hands
Probable
Then
Shot
Should
Who
Present
Defend
It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.
Charles Albert Gobat
War
Peace
Passion
Alienated
Neighbors
At Least One
Cases
Direction
Voice
Could
Allow
Step
Highly
Most
Least
Discussions
Ended
Listen
Probable
Them
Persuade
Avoided
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
David Brainerd
Future
Nature
Spiritual
Man
Soul
Few
State
Athens
Some
Had
Faint
Geniuses
Discoveries
Existence
Probable
Human
Rome
Formed
Conjecture
Human Soul
Designed
I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France.
Edward Grey
War
Country
France
Critical
Outbreak
Would
Week
Through
Parliament
Take
Cabinet
Had
Knew
Support
Contingency
Very
Probable
Decide
Whether
Should
Doubtful
View
Moment
Whole
At least three studies, in the U.S., Canada and Sweden, have linked glyphosate exposure to the disease, and in 2015, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer found glyphosate to be a 'probable' cause of cancer in humans. California's state environmental protection agency has also declared it a probable carcinogen.
Erin Brockovich
Environmental
Health
World
Protection
Cause
Cancer
Organization
Three
Research
State
Studies
Environmental Protection
Also
California
Least
Linked
Canada
Disease
Probable
Agency
Sweden
International
Exposure
Found
Humans
Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.
Frederic William Farrar
Great
Prayer
Generation
Father
Men
Before
Great Men
He
Like
Know
Became
Line
Hear
His
Died
Seneca
Probable
Whether
Again
Granted
Many
Second
Extinct
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
George Pierce Baker
Impossible
Possible
Improbable
Probable
Farce
Treats
The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.
George Vancouver
Natural
Water
Ocean
Changed
Bay
Some
Through
Coloured
River
Falling
North
Probable
Low
Land
Sea
Now
Streams
Consequence
Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.
Irwin Redlener
Terrorism
Possible
May
Probable
Nuclear
As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.
Janis Joplin
Losing
More
Closer
Gets
Probable
Being
Meaning
Really
Star
So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that's suspicion, it's lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out.
Joe Arpaio
You
Speak
Immigration
Cause
Out
Tell
ID
Check
Call
Than
Probable
Suspicion
Where
Then
Lower
English
Right
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
Jorge Luis Borges
Reality
Likely
Always
Probable
Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.
Julien Benda
Me
Lost
Nothing
Philosophy
Several
Seems
More
Remark
Aristotle
Been
Discovered
Times
Than
Probable
Arts
Doubtful
Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
Lara St. John
Quality
Problem
Money
Will
Down
Our
Soon
Because
Go
Probable
Orchestra
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
Laurence Olivier
Great
Culture
Believe
Great City
Visible
Sign
City
Small
Outward
Inward
Probable
Theater
Even
Village
It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.
Leland Stanford
Time
Will
Long
Long Time
Find
Both
Civilized
Countries
Mass
Come
Accept
Wages
Hired
Condition
Labor
Laborers
Probable
Mankind
Necessary
Do we want a back door in an iPhone where the government can go in to track movements if they have probable cause? I know the director of the FBI and local law enforcement want that capability.
Michael McCaul
Government
Director
Law
Cause
Local
Back
Back Door
Law Enforcement
Know
Track
Go
iPhone
Probable
Movements
Where
Want
Door
Capability
Enforcement
A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.
Potter Stewart
Cause
Others
Criminal
Independently
Rise
Give
Mere
Does
Person
Suspected
Probable
Search
Activity
Load more quotes
No more probable quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
Am
Bunny
Afforded
As Far As