If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.
Ray Floyd

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
Simone Weil

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
James Monroe

There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party.
Michael Laws

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
Barbara Sher

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Jonathan Winters

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.
Casey Stengel

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
Yo-Yo Ma

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
Norman Mailer

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
Brian Eno

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
Douglas Haig

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
Irving Babbitt

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
Stanislav Grof

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.
Condoleezza Rice

Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
Irwin Shaw

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

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
Lafcadio Hearn

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?
June Jordan

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
Robert Morgan