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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

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Aristotle

The ideal conditionWould be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;But since we are all likely to go astray,The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

Sophocles

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

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Lou Holtz

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

It's beyond people's belief, ... But I think it's very likely to happen.

John Moon

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

More than likely, that number is not going to change much.

Bill Bell

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

You're more than likely going to get turned on to something that you had no idea was out there in a place like this. All of our personalities are involved here.

Carl Webb

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

If the government utilizes the information in any manner, we're very likely going to need to do follow-up discovery.

Aden Fine

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

The new constitution is one issue that's most likely to be bound together either with the LY election of 2007 or even the presidential election.

Su Chi

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

Typically, this league is not that way. We know we've got to keep improving, and we know teams aren't likely to keep sweeping.

Jim Gantt

...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

IBM customers are the least vulnerable, the least likely to switch. While customers of Hewlett-Packard and Sun are among the most.

Bob Gill

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

If we never did a critical habitat designation, the frogs would still would be protected and so would their likely habitat.

Al Donner

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

Hotel demand should level off given the already high occupancy and tight capacity. We actually still have some capacity, so there is still likely some room for growth in occupancy and room demand.

Joe Toy

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

That's the challenge for Seattle. There's new competition on the horizon. It's more likely to come from a smaller market.

John Boyd

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

Candidly, the higher the price of the drug the more likely that somebody is going to do this. You're not going to be doing this for Tums.

Ted Dacko

They're not as likely to be as active with play as kids. Find something they like, and try out different activities.

Tami Streich