Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral. — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim of a fatal dog attack will… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
No matter what happens to us in life, we tend to think of it as 'good' or 'bad.' And most of us… — Srikumar Rao 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
Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when… — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Quitting is never an option on the road to success. Find the way forward. If you have a positive mindset and are… — Roopleen Copy Share Image
Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds? — Bonnie Tyler Copy Share Image
The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
As a general rule, the less time a bookmaker has to set his odds the softer the odds are going to be. — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it. — Abby Wambach Copy Share Image
The model I like to sort of simplify the notion of what goes on in a market for common stocks is the… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Robotics, manufacturing, medicine, farming, energy - all will be pushed to and beyond their limits and, by so doing, will advance at… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
