Quotes and Sayings About Odds
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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.
-- A. E. Housman -
If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.
-- Aaron LevieSource : Twitter post from Feb 18, 2013
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When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps.
-- Alan BrennertSource : Alan Brennert (2009). “Honolulu”, p.11, Macmillan
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I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.
-- Alan Shepard -
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Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.
-- Alexander ElderSource : Alexander Elder (2002). “Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons
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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 LansingSource : Alfred Lansing (2014). “Endurance”, p.247, Perseus Books Group
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It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.
-- Alison Bechdel -
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I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.
-- Amy Krouse RosenthalSource : Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2007). “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life”, p.6, Broadway Books
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Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.
-- Amy Winehouse -
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.
-- Anne Archer -
Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.
-- Anthony Storr -
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In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proven to be the most effective way to help them cope with problems. Observing that lives of people who have mastered adversity, I have noticed that they have established goals and sought with all their effort to achieve them. From the moment they decided to concentrate all their energies on a specific objective, they begun to surmount the most difficult odds.
-- Ari Kiev -
As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.
-- Arlen SpecterSource : Speech on Joining Democratic Party, www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2009.
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Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the owner as rubbish ... yet it is by the study of such trivial details that Archaeology is mainly dependent for determining the date of earthworks. ... Next to coins fragments of pottery afford the most reliable of all evidence ...
-- Augustus Pitt Rivers -
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
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Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.
-- Barry BondsSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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They put on fresh gloves and got back to business. Jazz wiped up the blood splatters in the freezer and tossed the tissues in with Howie’s waste. It bothered him that he was leaving evidence behind without some sort of oxygenated bleach, those blood splatters would still show up under Luminol. Of course, the odds of anyone deciding to spray down the morgue freezer and switch on an ultraviolet light were pretty minimal, so it’s not like it was evidence that anyone would ever find or use. Still: Billy Dent’s First Commandment was “Thou shalt not leave evidence.
-- Barry Lyga -
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I love you.†His voice was straightforward, affectionate. “You make me remember who I used to be. You make me want to be that man again. Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together. I’m yours, if you’ll have me.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams.
-- Bella ThorneSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?
-- Ben Casnocha -
Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.
-- Ben Horowitz -
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.
-- Benjamin Walker -
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.
-- Benny HillSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.
-- Bertrand Russell -
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The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor -- not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.
-- Bill Gross -
I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
-- Bill Nighy