Quotes about odds
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.
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
odds swear truth
Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? Matthew Prior
odds patterns principles
The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The more a price pattern is observed by speculators the more prone you have false signals; the more the market is a product of nonspeculative activity, the greater the significance of technical breakout Bruce Kovner
odds vegas boring
Statistical high Vegas odds probability is that nothing of any significance will ever happen to you in your entire boring life. Doug Stanhope
odds sky cities
It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression. E. B. White
odds soul actors
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
odds age spirit
Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time! Anne Rice
odds shining cost
I'll never pay above the odds for something if there's a more cost-effective alternative, so I guess that's where the saver in me shines through. Andy Murray
odds succeed discouraged
You can be the one - in - a - million. Don’t be discouraged by the odds to Succeed. David Beckham
odds surprised
I think the odds are good. I would be surprised if he didn't (beat the S&P).
odds three win
There are no secrets. We know what they like to do, they know what we like to do. We play them three times, and the odds are that we win at least one of those. John Wilson
odds seven slash willing
I would give you seven to one odds that this is going to be a slash piece, but that's OK. I'm willing to take the heat. James Woods
odds together shots
Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together. Becca Fitzpatrick
odds mind faces
You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you. James Macdonald
odds planets thinker
All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet Edith Hamilton
odds opposites people
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. Eric Ries
odds opposites growth
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. Henry Paulson
odds race survival
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
odds soul triumph
... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph. Harold Russell
odds people impossible
I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds. J. R. R. Tolkien
odds dumb challenges
The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge. Jerry Seinfeld
odds sweaters anxiety-disorder
People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a store to buy a sweater, find four that you like and the odds are pretty good you'll stare and stare... and buy nothing at all. Jeffrey Kluger
odds law miracle
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. Hannah Arendt
odds tough vegas
It would be tough for Vegas to put odds on this thing.
odds
The odds are you aren't going to get caught.