Betting Quote by E. V. Lucas

“Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we…

— Jean-Dominique Bauby

Hope does not always require probability.

— John Perry Barlow

“If I have to bet, I am going to bet on those lakes. I am going to bet on the basic decency that is…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“The rules of the betting are intelligent: recent events and the current context have the most weight in determining an interpretation. When no recent…

— Daniel Kahneman

Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

— Rachel Cusk

I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of…

— Barack Obama

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

— H. L. Mencken

Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.

— Marshall Ganz

In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the…

— Seth Godin

Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.

— John Perry