Odds Quotes · Page 18

Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic…

— Katherine Dunn

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as…

— Simon Pegg

Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.

— Lily Cole

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to…

— Roger Martin

“But think about it: Right from the start the odds are against you. It’s kind of amazing that any of us ever…

— Michael Thomas Ford

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose…

— Ho Chi Minh

Rehabbing any significant injury is a substantial challenge independently; braving the process twice makes for even longer odds.

— Gabe Kapler

'I am insecure' means: I can't cope on my own. The odds are overwhelming. I can't resist them on my own. I…

— Zygmunt Bauman

You can increase the odds of spotting the weak points in your approach if you really think about the end-to-end business model…

— Scott D. Anthony

Doesn't assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to…

— Eric Metaxas

Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds…

— Anthony Storr

Marvel's got a crowded universe, and there are already so many characters hogging the spotlight that it's hard to break through that.…

— Kurt Busiek

I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to…

— Marcia Wallace

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray…

— Lionel Shriver

“It comes to him that maybe love is always this way, a long-shot gamble: a bet against the odds that some intangible…

— Matthew Flaming

In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results.…

— Stephen Covey

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds…

— Paul Taylor

Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming…

— Robert Kiyosaki

Before I was in the band, I was a bricklayer, a cement mixer and a messenger. I did a lot of odds…

— Marky Ramone

Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch.

— Tom Peters

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is…

— Rosie O'Donnell

It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity.

— Stella Young

“Picture me however you want to picture me. Because odds are that'll be more true than any of the bodies you see…

— David Levithan

Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

— Gwen Ifill

When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

— Garrison Keillor

Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the…

— Mark Helprin

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never…

— Anne Rice

I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my…

— Bella Thorne

You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you.

— James MacDonald

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

— Karen Traviss

Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds.…

— David Berman

I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

— Ben Casnocha

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

— Kate Millett

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life…

— Stephen Hawking

That's when you know you're the greatest: when you're the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

— DJ Khaled

Despite the odds we fought, 'Sanam Re' has turned out very well and I am very proud of my crew.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

When life gets you down sometimes you just have to pull yourself up and beat all of the odds.

— Anonymous

The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.

— Jerry Seinfeld

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he…

— Charles Lindbergh