Odds Quotes
563 quotes by 470 authors
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A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will…
— Yann Martel
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Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not…
— Ian Fleming
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I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my…
— Nicholas Sparks
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The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.
— Shaun Tan
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Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes.…
— Robin McKinley
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What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against…
— Theodore Roethke
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C’mon, friend. It’s two on one. You sure don’t look like you’re up to those odds. (Stranger) You can’t be talking to me. I don’t…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we…
— Fred Rogers
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And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of…
— Alan Moore
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You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila…
— Khaled Hosseini
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There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with…
— Daniel Quinn
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
— Charles Bukowski
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Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing…
— Nicholas Sparks
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One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.
— Suzanne Collins
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Greeting to the final contestants of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. The earlier revision has been revoked. Closer examination of the rule book has disclosed that…
— Suzanne Collins
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If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.
— Peter Watts
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Bet you ten bucks we make it." What are the odds? she thought, and realized with sudden, blinding clarity that she wouldn't take the other…
— Jennifer Crusie
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What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making…
— Michael Lewis
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