Odds Quotes

563 Odds quotes by 470 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae. — Shaun Tan
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
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
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
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
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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