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A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit ...
— Kurt Vonnegut
It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.
— Richard Hofstadter
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
— Nancy Pearcey
If it be not destiny, then surely there is plausible deniability, which in the parlance of politics is the same thing.
— Christopher Moore
I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.
— Lawrence Lessig
Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine ... and then make them plausible.
— Chris Bohjalian
In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster.
— Mark Twain
Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.
— Elliott Colla
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
— David Mitchell
Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.
— Luigi Pirandello
Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.
— Miriam Allen De Ford
Plausible that a professional pitcher with some time to practice could throw a golf ball faster than a baseball.
— Randall Munroe
It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.
— Stanley Schmidt
Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.
— Amy Clampitt
Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.
— Richard Posner
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
— H.L. Mencken
To fix and make plausible, the nebulous emotions of my costumed heroins, like diamonds on a sea of dough.
— Margaret Atwood
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
A big lie is more plausible than truth.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The important thing is that we maintain plausible deniability.
— Richard M. Nixon
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.
— Fyodor Sologub
The cunning old cow, thought Melena. She is trying that rarest of strategies, telling the truth, and making it sound plausible.
— Gregory Maguire
I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.
— Allison Tolman
It must be said, some success. For instance, he had spent those fifteen years pretending to be an out-of-work actor, which was plausible enough.
— Douglas Adams
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
— H.G.Wells
To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?
— Robert Breault
I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.
— Antonia Fraser
Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.
— Rod Serling
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
— Joey Skaggs
Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.
— Mason Cooley
If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.
— David Korten
Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?
— Julian Barnes
It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.
— Tom Stoppard
Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.
— Raheel Farooq
The true and the plausible are rarely the same.
— Helen McCloy
Cain - and the password, "Indemnity." Given how rapidly management changed at the Beacon-Light, it was entirely plausible that this familiar
— Laura Lippman
That technology has canceled geography contains just enough merit to be called a plausible fallacy,
— Robert D. Kaplan
What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."
— Clay Shirky
What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
— Arthur Golden
Those who can envision a plausible future that's brighter than today will earn the opportunity to lead.
— Ray Ozzie
In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation ...
— Desson Thomson
Maybe she'd just say she ran into a door; that seemed infinitely more plausible than the truth.
— Kimberly Derting
The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.
— Steven Weinberg
The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.
— Timothy Geithner
There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.
— Noam Chomsky
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.
— Harry Turtledove
To isolate life from danger is a mission impossible! To take precautions against the dangers, that is the necessary and plausible mission!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.
— James Bryce
Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.
— John Henry Holland
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
— Wassily Leontief
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
— Joey Skaggs
To quote an early mentor," I tell the kid, " 'A journalist needs ratlike cunning, a plausible manner, and a little literary ability.
— David Mitchell
The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.
— James S.A. Corey
Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.
— Henry David Thoreau
Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible. - John Puller
— David Baldacci
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.
— Edward Bond
Only God can tell a truly plausible lie.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.
— Arthur Eddington
The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
— William Hazlitt
He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.
— Arthur C. Clarke
