#likely

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fit #likely #masterpiece #original #reader

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable. ↗

— Robert Bork

#either #finding #happy #laws #likely

I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a problem because I don't think we are ever likely to be up for the same part! ↗

— Kelly Brook

#because #dame #dench #ever #i

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#am #attempts #formed #fortune #greater

Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society. ↗

— John Cameron

#interesting #nuclear #nuclear physics #physics #society

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#become #challenges #daughter #daughters #defend

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#forgiven #get #life #likely #more

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#complete #delivers #friends #hands #i

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#get #i #i am #more #organized

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely. ↗

— Greg Egan

#book #boom #easier #edition #first