Odds Quotes
563 quotes by 470 authors
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Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?
— Robert Breault
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Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be done. Today we are called once more — and…
— Barack Obama
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Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love…
— Dean Koontz
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Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it,…
— James A. Baldwin
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Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal…
— Phyllis McGinley
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By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.
— Lurlene McDaniel
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The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.
— Kool Moe Dee
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You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat…
— George Steinbrenner
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Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin'…
— Zachary Levi
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Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional…
— William Zinsser
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Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.
— George Meany
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Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass…
— Parker J. Palmer
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... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.
— Harold Russell
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Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's…
— Terry Eagleton
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The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy…
— Michael Eisner
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When you think about what the odds are to have four boys to not only be able to follow in the footsteps in a basketball…
— Rick Barry
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Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.
— Rob Bell
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The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
— Patricia Clarkson
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As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.
— Tim DeKay
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