Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence… — Dhirubhai Ambani Copy Share Image
People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in… — Camryn Manheim Copy Share Image
Airey Neave's escape from Colditz, quite possibly the most remarkable thing a British politician has ever done, defined his years to come.… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
Joseph Beringer...dances around behind me singing some poorly rhymed and slightly dirty song about my [racing] odds at my skirts. 'I don't… — Maggie Stiefvater 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
It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools:… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
First, my frame of reference for the Britten opera shifted. I'd always thought of Britten's approach in Death in Venice as another… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go… — J. B. Priestley 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
It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself, — Socrates Copy Share Image
Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1. — Ernest Rutherford 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
My wife married me when the odds were that I'd be a house-painting bouncer for the rest of my days. She has… — W. Earl Brown Copy Share Image
That's when you know you're the greatest: when you're the greatest, and people still put odds against you. — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
If you have talent and you work really hard, it increases your odds but it doesn't ensure anything. But every now and… — Dennis DeYoung 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
