Odds Quotes

563 quotes by 489 authors

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? — Theodore Roethke
What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never… — Charles Dickens
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three… — Bertrand Russell
Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. — Mark Twain
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I… — Elizabeth Gilbert
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what… — Lance Armstrong
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at… — Charles A. Murray
Ain't nothing better, we beat the odds together. — Shania Twain
To be true to one's self is the ultimate test in life. To have courage and the sensitivity to follow your hidden dreams and stand… — Flo Hyman
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of… — Paul Hawken
We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out,… — Jeffrey Rowland
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident… — Ernest Lawrence
There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us… — Michael Cunningham
I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination. ... that I persevered. Because I think that… — Sylvester Stallone
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 be writers only… — Sydney Lea
I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission of feminism is to seek… — Camille Paglia
Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in… — Alexander Alekhine

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