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odds long actors
I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long! Bill Nighy
odds house graves
I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave. Charlie Munger
odds generations stories
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come. Bruce Feiler
odds errors safety
No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error. Benjamin Graham
odds others perhaps solace work writers
Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop. Gayle Lynds
odds laughing
We are here to laugh at the odds. Charles Bukowski
odds perspective people
I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.
odds law ideas
I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds. Elizabeth Emken
odds against-all-odds knows
You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it. Abby Wambach
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
silence argument weak
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
silence defense opponents
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
silence assertion
We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
silence stopping looks
To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. Alan Watts
silence answers critics
Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics. Aiden Wilson Tozer
silence building crescendo
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music. Chogyam Trungpa
silence tragedy might
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
silence trying remember
There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things. David Shapiro
silence silent minutes
If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought. Byron Katie