Odds Quotes

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One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a… — May Sarton
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. — Mahatma Gandhi
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to… — Erma Bombeck
Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor… — Lionel Shriver
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell… — Barbara Kingsolver
It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of… — Anne Lamott
Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor. — Suzanne Collins
I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say… — Bret Easton Ellis
In the Tarot deck, the Fool is depicted as a young man about to step off a cliff into empty air. Most people assume that… — Richard Kadrey
...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf… — Joyce Carol Oates
It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants - packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective or… — Zadie Smith
in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony,… — Charles Bukowski
I had a chance at him now. Things were a bit more even. He knew my name, I knew his. He had six years' experience,… — Jonathan Stroud
No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail. — Alfred Lansing
My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are also stories of… — Livia Bitton-Jackson
Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up… — Karen Hesse
Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where He was needed.… — Colum McCann
Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds. — Nami Mun
What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda… — Nicholas Sparks
Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with… — Anne Rice

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