Without the edge, [life's] boring...If you're doing something that's definitely achievable with 100% odds of success, where's the draw in that? — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds. — Anne Archer Copy Share Image
If I were a betting man, the odds are that Obama's White House and Justice Department will double down on their gun-control… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I want to show that against all odds and challenges, I can always come back and get stronger. — Joao Cancelo Copy Share Image
Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you… — John Baldoni Copy Share Image
Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I… — Richard Grimes Copy Share Image
I've always been attracted to characters with insurmountable odds and obstacles, because innately, however inarticulately I've always believed that my dreams and… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
Having won re-election convincingly and against the economic odds, President Obama quickly made good on his promise of maintaining taxes as they… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I come from a very small place in Eastern Europe, so my whole life has kind of been one big fight to… — Kerli Copy Share Image
“It comes to him that maybe love is always this way, a long-shot gamble: a bet against the odds that some intangible… — Matthew Flaming Copy Share Image
The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll… — Sydney Lea Copy Share Image
There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem with golf is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required… — Colin Falconer Copy Share Image
To rest in God's power when your own weaknesses seem to be screaming at you? That's grace! To be confident in who… — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality… — Paddy Johnson 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
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal… — Clark Gable Copy Share Image
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“Well, well," he said. "This can't be a coincidence." "It could," I said. "The odds aren't high, but they do exist." "Uh-huh.” — Josh Lanyon 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
One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it… — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve,… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I was the second female writer ever hired at 'Late Night.' When I applied for the job in 1988, I had no… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
Believe in yourself and have confidence that you can compete against all odds. Have a vision of what you'd like to accomplish… — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand? — Horace Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read… — Tim Maleeny Copy Share Image
“You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time . . . and… — Keith Thompson Copy Share Image
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image