Odds Quotes
One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one.
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 molts a feather?
One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.
There is no risk factor at all, the odds don't matter at all, because the odds of Law of Attraction are 100%.
You take a fraction of reality and expand on it. It's very seldom totally at odds with the facts. It's shaving a piece of reality off.
Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.
... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.
Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves.
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know itcan be done. I know the impossible can become possible.
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.
Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
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 against a movie star becoming president
Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?
I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.
But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.
That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.
Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.
In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.
To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.
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 everything we've ever imagined.
Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?
If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.
The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.
The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.
War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.
If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.
Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected.
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.
I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.
I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you
It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression.
Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another." pg 69 Tomas to Vlad
Women who bring up children by themselves do it heroically, they do it against all odds, men who don't feel responsible for being part of their child's life create real strains on that family.
It’s better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.