(370 quotes found)
“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.”
Scott Adams
“Some hold translations not unlike to be / The wrong side of a Turkish tapestry.”
James Howell
“Unlike most of you, I am not a nut.”
Homer Simpson
“The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.”
Woody Allen
“Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs”
“The person ready to believe unlikely and unproved things is readily made a slave of by the crafty”
Voltaire
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road / the one less traveled by / offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”
Rachel Carson
“No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.”
Lazarus Long
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