#likely

If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#games #go #had #i #less

Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#between #faces #gap #large #larger

Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#any #collapse #difficulty #even #great

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#apostle #book #hardly #into #likely

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#bringing #build #community #conflict #constructively

The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years. ↗

— Gary Locke

#exports #growth #heavy #intensive #investment

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

#done #forget #getting #i #i think

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#better #happened #i #i write #know

At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#america #candidate #country #declare #deserves

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#concealed #enemy #enterprise #execution #likely