By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds. — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“You never get one hundred percent odds, Sam. But your cards are fucking aces.” — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
I like to think I defied the odds my entire life, definitely my entire athletic career. — Aljamain Sterling Copy Share Image
Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way. — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
Move only when you have an advantage. It's very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
“If you think your odds of solving your problem are bad, don’t rule out the possibility that what is really happening is… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.' — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it! — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I had always planned when I started directing in 1970 that after a few years I'd get tired of looking at myself… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I remember vividly as a 15-year-old, in 1964, seeing Derry play Glentoran in the Irish Cup Final at Windsor Park in Belfast.… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
It was definitely a very appealing prospect to be in a company, especially as an art student: we had it hammered into… — Noelle Stevenson Copy Share Image
Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [...] This is early days in… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I don't get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting… — Shelley Long Copy Share Image
Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal… — Clark Gable Copy Share Image
All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission of feminism… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
For African American children, in particular, the odds are extremely high that they will have a parent or loved one, a relative,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
“The big man shrugged, "I don't know. You're pretty good with the cards. Tell me what the odds are." [She] shifted her… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Throw the rules out the window, odds are you'll go that way too. — Paritoshik Sharma Copy Share Image
What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk? — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“the odds were stacked against us. In the end, all we would ever have was the now. The beautiful now.” — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
I have to stop myself sometimes and look at where my life is and pat myself on the back because I'm beating… — David Faustino Copy Share Image
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image