Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucretius

Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand; whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.

J. Cole

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Elon Musk

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.

Jerry Seinfeld

The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.

Nick Cave

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.

Marina Warner

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

Marilyn vos Savant

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

Patricia Clarkson

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

Nikola Tesla

Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.

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

If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!

Socrates

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself,

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.

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.

Kyle Maynard

We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.

All coastal communities in the United States are at risk of a tsunami. We can talk about the odds of that risk, but all are at risk.

Louis Nizer

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

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.

Jeffrey Kluger

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.

Hannah Arendt

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.

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.

Stuart Rose

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

Scott Carpenter

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

Jon Stewart

The reason I don’t worry about society is, nineteen people knocked down two buildings and killed thousands. Hundreds of people ran into those buildings to save them. I’ll take those odds every f*cking day.

Joyce Carol Oates

...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot.

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.

Peter Shilton

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

Terry Eagleton

Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.

John Stuart Mill

The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

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.