Quotes and Sayings About Odds
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I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.
-- Michael Eric Dyson -
It’s better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.
-- Michael Hyatt -
I need your help.†Royce looked up as if his head weighed a hundred pounds, his eyes red, his face ashen. He waited. “One last job,†Hadrian told him, then added, “I promise.†“Is it dangerous?†“Very.†“Is there a good chance I’ll get killed?†“Odds are definitely in favor of that.†Royce nodded, looked down at the scarf in his lap, and replied, “Okay.
-- Michael J. Sullivan -
What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong.
-- Michael Lewis -
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
-- Michael Reagan -
Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them.
-- Michio Kaku -
Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?
-- Mika Brzezinski -
The odds are definitely better on getting the right job than getting a good partner for life. Someone who will grow with you. Someone to develop memories with. Someone who was there in the beginning. Someone who will be there at the end.
-- Mika Brzezinski -
The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.
-- Morgan Freeman -
The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great odds and difficulties.
-- Muhammad Ali Jinnah -
Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.
-- Nami Mun -
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
-- Nancy Pearcey -
If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.
-- Nathan Myhrvold -
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.
-- Naveen Jain -
I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.
-- Neil Armstrong -
Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.
-- Nick Cave -
Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn't worth the risk?
-- Nick Hornby -
There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass media, the academy and organized religion, our good words tend to float away even as they leave our lips, ascending to an altitude where they neither reflect nor connect with the human condition. We long for words like love, truth, and justice to become flesh and dwell among us. But in our violent world, it's risky business to wrap our frail flesh around words like those, and we don't like the odds.
-- Parker J. Palmer -
The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
-- Patricia Clarkson -
But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
-- Patricia Clarkson -
The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
-- Paul Dickson -
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.
-- Paul Hawken -
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.
-- Paul Hawken -
I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.
-- Paul Watson -
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.
-- Peter Watts
