Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

The odds are you aren't going to get caught.

Tom Mann

The odds are strong that whatever they do will be pushed until after the election.

Joel Silver

It's an odd little movie. We weren't sure who would show up.

Scott Carpenter

It's interesting how at odds we were then with the Soviet Union,

It was an odd game. We ran out of uniforms.

As odd as that sounds, it's probably one of the reasons for the placement with us. I think I had established the most trust with Naomi.

That's kind of an odd statistic. You don't see that too often.

Evander Holyfield

Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion.

Jay McInerney

I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

Bubba Watson

I keep defying the odds, you know.

Nate Silver

Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.

Karen Traviss

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

Stuart Rose

I don't want to put any odds on it (continuing) at all...we're still talking.

Harold Russell

... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.

Kevin Smith

Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

James Macdonald

You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you.

Eric Ries

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

Henry Paulson

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

Khaled Hosseini

She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.

Martha Plimpton

I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

John C. Maxwell

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

Sheena Iyengar

Most of the time you should use reason, there is no doubt about that because gut often makes us susceptible to lots of different biases, particularly if what you're deciding is something that you really, that expertise can be brought to bear on it, there is a way in which you can align the odds, so then you should really use reason.

Lloyd Alexander

Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.

Lynndie England

I thought the whole masturbation thing was really odd and really weird.

Lewis Black

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

Karen Hesse

Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.

Laura Wade

It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

Lord Byron

This is the age of oddities let loose.

Julianne Moore

If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.