If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
It's not easy to leave your hometown and your family and your support system and come out to Los Angeles to -… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds. — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Shimon Peres was the greatest living example of an unshakable belief in the pursuit of peace against all odds. — Ephraim Mirvis Copy Share Image
What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds. — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and… — Emily Levine Copy Share Image
I need your help.” Royce looked up as if his head weighed a hundred pounds, his eyes red, his face ashen. He… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to… — Patrick Warburton Copy Share Image
When I was about 10, I saw Timothy Bottoms in a tele-movie called 'A Shining Season,' and it really moved me. I… — Reggie Lee Copy Share Image
If the election of the Father is not universal and the regeneration of the Holy Spirit is not universal, why would the… — Shai Linne Copy Share Image
Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There are just four kinds of bets. There are good bets, bad bets, bets that you win, and bets that you lose.… — Larry Hite Copy Share Image
Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
I had no answer to those questions, only hope. With absolutely no one to turn to, no Mikey, no Axe, no Danny,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I would say the worst period of my life was between 1997 and 2000. I was lost, I was all at odds.… — Mick Hucknall 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
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
My thing with the Secret Six is that they never win. The odds are always against them; everyone wants them gone. So… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under… — Bill Simmons Copy Share Image
Founders are often great storytellers because they're in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds. — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
One of the secrets to happiness is knowing when to take chances. If you don't, the odds are that you will fall… — Suhasini Mulay Copy Share Image
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose… — Clark Gable Copy Share Image
We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the… — Kyle Maynard Copy Share Image
“This isn't a question of odds. Of all the men in the world, that woman hose you. If she's still out there,… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture's failure. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
A guy like Ric Flair at 49 could go out and do his character. A guy 49 going out and doing Goldberg… — Bill Goldberg Copy Share Image
Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I've always had a theory that the biggest odds you'll ever face are the odds of being conceived. So if you beat… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste… — James Alan Gardner Copy Share Image
