Likelihood Region

Famous quotes containing the words likelihood and/or region:

    “What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    “When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don’t count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on.”
    —Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)