Odds Quotes
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.
One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she just said?!" I want your instincts to be at odds with your mind.
Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.
Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.
Dedication is loyalty to a cause, even when hope has long expired for a successful outcome. It is an unstoppable determination to win regardless of the odds.
When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
Statistical high Vegas odds probability is that nothing of any significance will ever happen to you in your entire boring life.
Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.
The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.
The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.
My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.
It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
I have gotten where I am today only because I have persisted against all odds for a long time.
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.
The value of free expression is perceived to be at odds with goals that were considered 'more important,' like inclusiveness, diversity, nondiscrimination, and tolerance.
Either philosophy reinforces communal beliefs, in which case it is pointless; or else it is at odds with those beliefs, in which case it is dangerous.
There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.
The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.
There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.
The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will have been toppled and new companies will be on top.
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.
Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
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.
... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.
The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.
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.
We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.
