I just love seeing people embrace freedom, faith, and courage in the face of enormous odds. — Edwina Findley Copy Share Image
“I have never been one to ignore the signs. Unless, of course, it works in my favor.” — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one. — Brook Benton Copy Share Image
Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin. — Jay Samit Copy Share Image
Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour. — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
If I can meet you again, against the 6 BILLION TO 1 ODDS even if you can't move, I'LL MARRY YOU... Because… — Faith Barroa Copy Share Image
You take a fraction of reality and expand on it. It's very seldom totally at odds with the facts. It's shaving a… — Frank Snepp Copy Share Image
It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
But even in your world it’s a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds…… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions. But now that can… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
I'm so moved when I see everyday Americans standing together, against all odds, to make their lives and communities better - whether… — Sally Kohn Copy Share Image
I didn't know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and… — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
"Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proven to be the most… — Ari Kiev Copy Share Image
Bet you ten bucks we make it." What are the odds? she thought, and realized with sudden, blinding clarity that she wouldn't… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
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