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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Improbable things happen a lot...
We are a people of improbable hope.
Peace is impossible, war is improbable.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.
The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.
There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
As a hopeless romantic, I'm drawn to stories of improbable beginnings.
Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.
Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.
My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.
I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.
I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.
The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible.
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Today, in 2011, I'm giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration's improbable MVP in the technology realm.
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
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.
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.
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.
America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.
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.
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.
Really, some of the best 'X-Files' stories come right out of science. And you just apply that 'what-if' idea. Oh, what if this were true? And that's why so many times the show is scarier because it was not necessarily improbable.
