Odds Quotes
563 quotes by 470 authors
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The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
— Stephen Covey
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Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds…
— Michael Reagan
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By now you know what I liked most was the hunt, the challenge of what the thing was. The killing for me was secondary. I…
— Richard Kuklinski
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Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?
— Unknown Author
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Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?
— George du Maurier
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It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself,
— Socrates
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The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.
— Leslie T. Chang
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So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of…
— Emily Levine
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But even in your world it’s a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds… get a Mother.
— Diane Duane
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The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The more a price…
— Bruce Kovner
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Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the…
— Unknown Author
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The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality more pure. There's…
— Paddy Johnson
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I agree that you might clone some people who would look amazingly like their parental cell donors, but the odds are that they'd be almost…
— Lewis Thomas
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To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule. To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure. But…
— Rene Carayol
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I have gotten where I am today only because I have persisted against all odds for a long time.
— Rory Block
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My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious…
— Peter Greenaway
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I once read about a meeting of economists who agreed that if their forecasts were 33 1/3 % correct, that was considered a high mark…
— Gerald M. Loeb
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I think if anyone tells you the odds are slim, just keep walking. Just do whatever the hell you want to do, because they don't…
— Melissa McCarthy
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So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost…
— George Monbiot
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