...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
My career has been very good to me, but really, the odds are really slim. It's a tough life, and you deal… — Morena Baccarin Copy Share Image
I have always been known as Mahesh Bhatt's wife, and I would tell people, 'Hello! I'm here!' This has always been a… — Soni Razdan Copy Share Image
If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I loved Married With Children. That was the job that against all odds - you know, when I first read the script,… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
You must ignore what everyone else is doing and trade only when you feel the odds are in your favor. In short,… — Gary B Smith Copy Share Image
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
As one ages, eventually, no matter what regime you've followed, no matter how fiercely you've fought the fight, good health becomes harder… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person.… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan, getting shot at was a regular occurrence. I viewed survival as a numbers game. As point man, every time I… — Ant Middleton Copy Share Image
There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Barbra Streisand has always been an inspiration for me. I admire Jennifer Lopez because she's been against all the odds, and she's… — Lauren London Copy Share Image
The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started… — Jenny Agutter Copy Share Image
Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
“People play the lottery all the time unaware of how mind-bogglingly difficult it is to win. It seems like they take a… — Orlando Winters Copy Share Image
I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the… — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
If you don’t believe in your product, or if you’re not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds… — Jay Conrad Levinson Copy Share Image
The story of Noah is self-contradictory, uncorroborated by independent historical evidence, and is generally at odds with everything we know about our… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
