Odds Quotes

If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

All of the major accomplishments that I have made in my career have been in many instances against the odds.

One thing about Guantánamo, beyond anything else, is the commitment against all odds to allow Americans to view themselves as the good guy, no matter what the situation is.

Leadership is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. It's about going against the odds and accepting responsibility for the outcomes along the way

I get more inspired by seeing everyday people succeed against the odds than anything else in life.

Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.

One of my favorite teams of all time is Fran and Barry. I just thought Fran and Barry last season were just incredible and they just sort of went against all odds and were very successful.

If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

I'll never pay above the odds for something if there's a more cost-effective alternative, so I guess that's where the saver in me shines through.

But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think." "I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.

Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?

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 anyone at any time!

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.

Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together.

I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

We are here to laugh at the odds.

Without the edge, [life's] boring...If you're doing something that's definitely achievable with 100% odds of success, where's the draw in that?

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

Society is at odds with itself.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

I usually try not to think about actors while writing, because the odds of those stars aligning and you getting those specific people are so rare.

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

I just love seeing people embrace freedom, faith, and courage in the face of enormous odds.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

Coming up with a funny joke is like falling in love: It can hit you any time, anywhere. Having said that, the more you put yourself out there, the better your odds will be.

I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds, but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.

Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.

As you get older the odds are against you that you are still going to be on the planet.

I quite like that jeopardy, those up-against-the-wall odds. I don't like it when it's over-comfortable, too easy, something that can be done in two or three weeks. I like a challenge.

Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

May I say that I am delighted that my favorite alpha is feeling better. Why, you'll be running recklessly into danger against overwhelming odds anytime now.

Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.

Passion is the engagement of our soul with something beyond us, something that helps us put up with or fight against insurmountable odds, even at high risks, because it is all worth it.

If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we are in base reality would be one in billions.

I thought bringing those two [Taylor Sheridan and David Mackenzie] together, odds are you're going to come up with something pretty good.

In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.

Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.

When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.

Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.