Odds Quotes
563 quotes by 470 authors
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but…
— Clarence Darrow
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Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would…
— Mark Helprin
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And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
— A. E. Housman
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From the first moment a woman dared to speak that hope - dared to believe that the American Dream was meant for her too -…
— Barack Obama
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I like to be against the odds.
— Barry Bonds
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I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was…
— Bill Russell
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If the election of the Father is not universal and the regeneration of the Holy Spirit is not universal, why would the atonement of the…
— Shai Linne
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We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.
— Karen Traviss
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Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.
— Paul Auster
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Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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If you flip a coin three times and it lands on heads each time, it’s probably chance. If you flip it a hundred times and…
— T. Colin Campbell
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But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
— Patricia Clarkson
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It's not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given…
— Charlie Munger
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It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.
— Steven Kotler
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What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets when the odds…
— Bill Gross
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Against the odds, John Carter is itself pretty amazing-an epic pulp saga that slowly rises to the level of its best imitations and wins you…
— Ty Burr
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It’s better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.
— Michael Hyatt
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Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes…
— William J. Clinton
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Anytime odds get stacked up against me, I feel like it's in me to beat it
— Damian Lillard
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