It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business. — Henry David Thoreau 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
Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin. — Jay Samit 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
I escaped my destiny. The odds were that I would end up in prison, but I didn't. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to… — Ariel Pink 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
All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
There are millions of people, refugees, who have experienced the same conflicts and struggles I did. They have the same potential to… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I go against the odds. I was No. 2, I'll fight anyone. The odds against you, everybody's against you but I have… — Gilbert Burns 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
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
Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be done. Today we are called once… — Barack Obama 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
The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a… — Lois Gibbs Copy Share Image
I can't imagine raising a child with a goal of that child being a baseball player or a lawyer or whatever. Odds… — Oliver Luck Copy Share Image
“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked… — Robert S. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Boy, that was mean, even by my standards," Maysilee says to me. "You can't choose your parents." "You could reject their business,"… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all -… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and… — Gregg Braden 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
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
"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