The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.
Andre Gide
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
Barbara Sher
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett
Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed.
Chinese Proverb
If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.
Chinese Proverb
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
Jules Renard
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
Bertrand Russell
It is likely that the Street's confidence in McDonald's could be at an all-time low.
Mark Kalinowski
We get the strong sense that the degree of frustration with China is accelerating very sharply and is not likely to be assuaged by a few orders that likely would have been placed anyway.
C. Fred Bergsten
Things will continue to deteriorate this year for earnings, ... Things are getting worse and they're likely to continue doing so. There's a chance we could have a recession in 1999.
Charles Hill
So the most likely solution was going to come from a new, start-up airline, which is what has happened.
Mark Davison
We'd like to know before this weekend if we can, so we can alert our teams as to what day they're likely to play.
Patrick Keane
We believe that investors are likely to interpret this ... as being positive for the gold market as it will raise speculation that China will increase its gold holdings.
John Reade
It is likely to be the first of many attacks.
John Kilduff
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.
Shana Alexander
I think gay people across the state are most likely feeling very disappointed.
Christina Gilgor
We can keep them from stinging people. But because nobody else is doing it around us, eradication is probably not likely.
Michael Hearst
Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
George Santayana
What is likely is that you will see a decline in scores whenever a new test is administered. It's due to unfamiliarity with the test.
Robert Schaeffer
I guess that could occur. But that's not likely.
Jim Steiner
I think we're going to continue to see consolidation. Will it slow relative to what we've seen in 2004 and 2005? Most likely.
Carl Mcdonald
The more you pick something that's a true interest, the more likely you're going to bond through that interest. The friendship stuff will come out of that. It's something you want to do anyway, so if you don't form friendships, it doesn't bother you because you're enjoying the activities.
Jan Yager
Consumers are likely to expect incentives such as low-interest financing for years to come.
Chris Denove
Much of our argument is likely to be with the U.S. government, rather than the Iranian government.
Terry Anderson
We're likely to see a sharp and meaningful correction that lasts a few months.
Chip Hanlon
Hopes of a change after the likely election in September, the stock markets and the global economy are all contributing to what is a significant increase.
Julian Callow
They're hot markets, but sometime you need to put your efforts where they're most likely to have success.
Dan Bedore
If you're a cereal company it's not likely you're going to have fifty companies run out of a garage nipping at your heels. Tech companies do have to continue to innovate.
James Denney
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
This number is likely to further rise.
Shaukat Sultan
If you're a lower income group, you're very likely not to be online.
Nancy Snow
A continued focus on margins and little change in activity in database demand will likely keep many investors on the sidelines until some more convincing catalysts are in evidence.
Christopher Shilakes
It seems to be overwhelmingly likely that there is life out there and eventually we will make contract. And when contact is made, it will be the end of Earth's cultural evolution. It will be the greatest discovery in the history of humankind.
Paul Horowitz
The death toll we fear is likely to rise as we are still unable to access certain areas.
Vijay Bakaya
The data show that if the kids have a successful freshmen year they are more likely to graduate.
Cathy Reed
It will make the extinction of species much more likely.
Michael Bean
If I were an immigrant without papers, I wouldn't be hanging around down there. It's a place where border patrol is likely to target.
Cheryl Little
Other studies claim that ecstasy leads to depression. Sometimes that is the case. But perhaps it is more the case that individuals who already have an increased risk for depression are more likely to use ecstasy.
Anja Huizink
It looks much more likely that the two sides will settle.
Harvey Saferstein
We will include the fact that we consider that to be the likely target age in our agreement on a coalition government.
Franz Muentefering
Given this outlook, it follows obviously that the bank is more likely to tighten policy than to ease in the foreseeable future.
Glenn Stevens
Having an agreed deal is more likely to be effective than someone just coming in with a hostile bid.
John Lawson
That's good news, ... I'm hearing we're likely to be able to get [HST] into 2008 now.
Jim Crocker
Because male fetuses are more fragile than female fetuses, they are more likely to be damaged.
Ralph Catalano
The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
Alan Coren
Of course I hate it, ... The changes are likely to ruin the game. They've made a scoring system that doesn't exist.
Thomas Johansson
A fall in liquidity looks like more likely than before, though the market has been aware this would happen in the near future.
Tsuyoshi Nomaguchi
With all the price competition [in generics], we're likely to see more consolidation.
Michael Krensavage
These tactics are so far backfiring, since UNMEE - rather than the border - is now the focus of international attention, and Eritrea is likely to be cast in the role of aggressor.
Matt Bryden
Abe is the least likely to be a pragmatist. But the costs are too high not to be pragmatic. They lose leadership in the region. They lose legitimacy.
Richard Samuels
We've discussed how it's always likely there's some genetic component going on.
Keiji Fukuda
In the course of April 2006, the Secretary-General is likely to propose a broader strategy.
Alex P. Schmid
We're probably getting closer to overshooting. It's likely that it's going to start to impair economic growth.
Bill Larkin
The news should improve in the second half as likely Fed rate cuts begin to affect the economy and earnings momentum improves on easy comparison.
Steve Milunovich
If they succeed it would be a milestone in Korea, and it would likely mean that it won't be the only one, because others would follow.
Thomas Choi
In the next five years we will most likely spend $1.5 billion to $2 billion in Brazil on development. We will be creating a footprint that is very strong.
Ali Moshiri
Based on this early success of the program we will likely bring larger and more frequent deals to market.
Mark Hanson
These are low consumer confidence numbers, more than likely affected by the hurricanes and high prices of energy.
Barry Hyman
This product likely won't make it to market.
Michael Weinstein
Ultimately, a battle for market influence between geopolitical factors and the flow of U.S. data is likely to be settled in favor of the former.
Kevin Norrish
The team already knew about the planned departure of Coach Bonfiglio from the coaching staff, and this only adds to the kind of changes that we are likely to see.
Gordon Scharf
Although our results did point toward amount being more important, it is very likely fitness levels can be improved by increasing either amount or intensity.
Brian D. Duscha
The commodity price boom is something that's very supportive for Brazil. The real is likely to appreciate.
Carlin Doyle
They have already refused to sign and they are un likely to participate.
Dr Zibani Maundeni
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
Jorge Luis Borges
It's very likely that this game could be one in the trenches.
Dave Garza
It still may turn out to be an accident, but it's looking less and less likely based on the facts.
Andrew Jarvis
You like problems like this, where the severest attack is the least likely, and the most likely attack is the least severe.
Ivan Oelrich
While the board has independent power in that regard, it's very likely that they would be highly respectful of that legislative intent.
David Potter
Whites are significantly less likely to say that there are problems for blacks today.
Frank Newport
I'm a pretty big believer that history is likely to repeat itself.
Robert Kotick
It would seem like an odd outcome to me. It would be more likely they'd let all of them go forward or none.
Ben Wizner
It's not clear it's going to work in human embryos. And in order to determine that we'll have to actually do the research on human embryos and likely destroy some in the process.
Dr George Daley
We view this as a one-time event that will likely correct itself in Q4.
Tore Svanberg
There's a real chance, it's not the most likely chance, but there's a real possibility that that's the way the race could play out.
Richard Murray
I was a likely target, ... It was really no big deal.
Tim Ruskell
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert M. Hutchins
For most men, [breast cancer] is not a hereditary thing, but it's more likely to be hereditary in men than in women.
Debbie Saslow
Journalists, by and large, are not as good as they should be in keeping up with what happens after a large verdict — even though they know full well from experience that the verdict will most likely be cut dramatically. There surely is less of an attention span than there should be.
Tom Goldstein
Proof of this facility was critical since SARS was likely to strictly police the exemption now that it had been confirmed by the court.
Rodney Lewis
The shares are likely to stay at a record because of high copper prices.
Yoshihisa Miyamoto
There have been a lot of warnings about German GDP which is also likely to be low, so I think a number close to 0.3 percent is more likely than 0.4.
Stephane Deo
It's not 100 per cent certain that Graeme will be out, but it is highly likely. We'll have a bit of a reshuffle but I can't really say much more at the minute.
John Relish
As many as 4,000 oil rigs in the gulf coast are most likely impacted by this storm.
Martha Rowe Mitchell
There is not sufficient data on other countries, many of which are likely to be very corrupt.
Peter Eigen
We had 8 feet of water in our house. The house may be salvageable, but not likely. We lost everything.
Alton Johnson
If the Liberal Democrats lose seats, we are likely to see a yen sell-off.
Mark Chandler
If we can help returning Israelis to feel comfortable and succeed financially, then they are more likely to stay here.
Tamar Abramovitch
Overweight mothers are more likely to have overweight daughters and sons.
Marcia Barber
Any surprises in the January CPI data from Bavaria and Brandenburg will clearly influence short-term rate expectations, with anything higher than expected likely to boost the euro.
Marc Ostwald
Growth is more likely to firm modestly from here and it's quite unlikely to ease much further.
Anirvan Banerji
We knew going into this process it would likely be appealed. It's attractive -- a new hospital in a growing area. It's an opportunity for an existing hospital.
Thom Berry
When you see a bird, look at it carefully. Don't go to a field guide looking for a rare or unusual bird. It's most likely to be a common bird to the area.
Norm Lantz
The near-term is fraught with more questions than answers. Sales comparisons are likely to toughen dramatically going forward.
Todd Slater
One thing that surprised me is that we expected, based on anecdotal evidence, that girls might be more likely to give oral sex and boys more likely to receive it, but we didn't find that at all. There's more gender equality than we expected.
Jennifer Manlove
We are left with a picture of a White House that was plagued by the fog of war. The committee is likely to find a disturbing inability by the White House to de-conflict and analyze information ? and that had consequences.
David Marin
There are likely to be delays. This is an unfortunate side-effect of the extra questioning.
Canada Customs
The result is bad, very disappointing. It is highly likely that the company's shares will suffer as a result.
Felipe Cunha
[Some people are in a situation where] the more they deny their temptation, the more likely they are to act on it.
Linda Olson
We?re headed for 5.4 degrees over the next 100 years. Adaptation will be less likely.
Tim Flannery
As we add lines, we will very likely continue to drop lines at the same time.
Bill Botti
In fact, that's one of the reasons that the team, most likely, was let go last June, is that we had differences of opinion on that.
Gretchen Wehmhoff
Miss a putt for $2,000? Not likely!
Walter Hagen
It is likely that we will not get all the way to our end of the season.
Scott Provancher
One way is to address these social issues. If women weren't under chronic strain, they wouldn't be as likely to be depressed.
Carla Grayson
The more they need you, the more likely it is you're going to get clauses that you want in the agreement.
James Johnston
Are they likely to change the (overall) crime rate in Texas? Not really. ... Will it change the directions and patterns in Texas? I doubt it.
Steve Murdock
We're likely to get some strong inflation data and that's going to keep the dollar going up for now. The yen will probably bear the brunt of the advance.
Marvin Barth
My client is likely to take the stand, although I will make that decision at the time.
Dan K. Webb
Nobody wants to get their head chopped off. John Chambers doesn't know the future. There are huge penalties for saying things are getting better and then not delivering so even if he saw that things were up, he likely wouldn't say it.
Susan Kalla
If we don't take this opportunity, it's very likely that we won't get another chance.
Sam Hodder
Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.
Georgia Witkin
Official aid is more likely to retard development than to promote it.
Peter Bauer
It's not really a conundrum because earnings have been terrific for financials and they are likely to remain solid this year.
Ken Hackel
It's overwhelmingly likely that life exists on other planets.
Paul Horowitz
It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.
Michael Schudson
This will likely cause us to look at our specific contract agencies.
Todd Sandman
It is likely that the Internet appliance is a case of turning the clock backward.
Andrew Grove
We're probably likely to see an acceleration in dollar weakness.
Brian Garvey
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
John Milton
The evidence is quite clear to us. If you're Taurus, Aries or Cancer we're more likely to see you in the charts.
David Roberts
If the bid fails, it is likely the share price will fall from current levels.
Phil Pryke
The widening rate gap between the U.S. and HK in the later part of 2006 will likely be accompanied by a strong HK dollar.
George Leung
Returns will likely be more restrained going forward.
Rohan Walsh
There are any number of men who have this problem, too. But when you say who's more likely (to say yes), it's more likely to be women.
Susan Newman
For Inuit, warming is likely to disrupt or even destroy their hunting and food-sharing culture as reduced sea ice causes the animals on which they depend to decline, become less accessible, and possibly become extinct.
Robert Corell
We're evaluating how quickly we can implement that. It's likely something that we will do but I can't say when.
Brendan Roberts
I would have expected a much more inclusive process. If they are relying on inviting companies to participate in the process, how much diversity of opinion are they likely to achieve?
Michael Goulde
Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
Jack Gould
It was hoped political attitudes would change, but this was likely to take some time.
John Carlson
Everyday spending decisions, especially credit-based ones, will do far more harm to our financial future than any investment decision you will likely ever make.
Paul Richard
There was no possibility that anyone could survive the impact. It is very likely that everyone died instantly.
Alberto Gonzalez
A cooperative global approach to reducing emission growth is more likely to produce real emissions reductions, without damaging economic growth in the EU and elsewhere.
Margo Thorning
It's clearly a distraction even though the renewal of the draft isn't likely to happen.
Rick Hardy
We're not likely to raise prices in the fixed-line area.
John Stanhope
Many of these were likely never in the lake.
Charlie Crisafulli
Small employers also have less flexibility to tinker with plan design. They're most likely to shop around for a cheaper plan.
Blaine Bos
We're going to experience a significant amount of flooding. We could for a short time be completely under, and then come out of it after a couple of hours. But we're more than likely to be completely flooded.
Steve Leblanc
It'll likely continue to be ahead of the R&D curve.
Sean Badding
There is only so long business can absorb higher production costs. Something has got to give and what's most likely to give is prices.
Craig James
The more physical control you both have, the less likely you are to moan and groan.
Stephen Braveman
We have to ascertain whether the sale is about the entirety of the Internet backbone business. If it is, it would be likely to address our concerns about the overlap.
Stefan Rating
That leaves you with little or no organic growth. Coming up with true organic growth is always a challenge for a company of IBM's size and that's likely to remain a concern in the future.
Robert Cihra
The more land we take, the more expensive it gets. The more expensive it gets, the more likely this system can't happen.
Scott Seeburger
The terrorists are likely trying to determine what, if anything will change as a result of the change in Saudi leadership.
Steven Boylan
Our ability to move ahead has waned. Overcoming the most difficult cancers with higher doses is not likely to succeed anymore.
Peter Adamson
It would be status quo. More than likely, we would not be able to add any of these additional (employees) if we did not have funds coming in through incorporation or through assessment increase.
Tommy Bailey
I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.
Peter Noone
...drought conditions throughout the Greater Horn of Africa are likely to continue in most of the areas between February until at least the beginning of April.
Mark Oliver
If we get a new city council that question will likely be addressed.
Christina Davis
We don't know which of those genes is most likely to harbor this particular risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, but we're getting closer. We're now trying to nail down which one of these six genes is the most likely to be involved.
Alison M. Goate
Revenue growth is likely to be stronger in the second half (of the fiscal year ending in July) than in the first half.
William Becklean
Strong leadership and better communication would likely turn it around within 18 to 24 months.
Dhulsini De Zoysa
Given the circumstances surrounding the affair and its likely impact upon my family and my ability to govern, I have decided the right course of action is to resign.
James Mcgreevey
We know from a lot of studies if you have health insurance you're more likely to get preventive care, detect conditions early on and you're more likely to have chronic conditions like diabetes or hypertension controlled effectively.
Karen Davis
Put in perspective, these levels are as high as they were in the late 1960s, so the fact that we've come off a little bit is most likely the reflection of anticipation of higher interest rates.
Kathleen Camilli
We're more conservative in our estimates. Realistically, by 2010 about 3,5m-4m people are likely to be on treatment.
Stavros Nicolaou
It's likely that we will find over 100 individual skeletons. No fossil site in the world has ever been like that.
Richard Hulbert
However, high net worth individuals in the U.S. are less likely to ask questions than pension funds and endowments.
David Goldstein
The more these viruses interact with the human population, the more likely it is that it could adopt this type of mutation.
James Stevens
This is perfectly tied to loyalty. If you're a regular user, you're more likely to win.
Frank Anderson
Something weird will likely happen during this show.
Brian Frange
Two months ago, a hike in May seemed not so likely; now it seems like a certainty.
Neil Massa
We do believe he's crossed state lines -- most likely into California, ... Beyond that we're not being very specific so as not to tip him off.
Anne Steele
It's pretty clear that there are likely to be capacity problems as one gets north of $50 billion in assets.
John Bonnanzio
Microsoft likes its chances in the appeals courts, ... Posner, who is an appellate judge, will tell them what is likely to happen in the appeals courts.
Harvey Saferstein
The people who are his strongest supporters are among the least likely to support this bill.
Dwayne Johnson
The North Korea news is also likely to be positive for the dollar.
Jeremy Stretch
You have a center city surrounded by less dense communities. That's the place people go for employment, for major shopping. That's very likely going to continue.
Roger Hawk
Don't make too big of a fuss out of things, The younger you can bring them in to get a haircut, the more likely they are going to get along with a haircut.
Justin Hill
It's likely that some of those acts will end up at Marymoor or the winery.
Dave Littrell
There's not really likely to be market panic around the nomination.
Kevin Hassett
It's likely we'll pick up an extra four to six people.
Patrick Patterson
The market correction which began abruptly with a sharp inventory adjustment in the 2000 fourth quarter, is likely to continue through much of this year.
Pasquale Pistorio
It looks more likely than not.
Jack Gallagher
Technical signs are also positive and the index is likely able to stand above 755 for the day.
Padermpob Songkroh
That just kind of reaffirms the fact that there likely weren't any birds out there until this transplant program.
David Budeau
The place of residency seems to determine more likely the place of practice than the place of medical education.
Sheila Mcdevitt
Department stores are struggling with declining market share and that's why we're likely to see future consolidation in this group.
Mark Mandel
It's most likely under the concrete. We still don't know exactly what route was followed.
Jack Richardson
The data shows that this is most likely a hundreds-of-thousands to millions of victims issue.
Dan Kaminsky
That's what makes it a resolution. It's more likely to succeed if you go through all of these steps before you make the resolution.
Arden Mahlberg
Employment is likely to be much weaker going forward and the jobless rate will keep rising as the economy cools. Interest rates are on hold.
Jarrod Kerr
Ultimately he's likely to be forced to compromise more, ... there hasn't been very much in the way of backing down.
James Malcolm
Martin has applied for legal aid and that's likely, that's on the cards.
Michele Stephens
They're not as likely to be as active with play as kids. Find something they like, and try out different activities.
Tami Streich
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