Odds Quotes - Page 14

• I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen everyday. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen.

  Yann Martel

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Heart

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.

  Mary Balogh

  Sweet, Believe, Fighting

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• 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.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Color, Add, Stories

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• Don’t be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God’s commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.

  David B. Haight

  Fighting, Helping Others, Winning

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• A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

  Rick Yancey

  Running, Advice, Wish

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Curse of the Wendigo”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

  Stephen King

  Gratitude, Sweet, Flower

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• May I say that I am delighted that my favorite alpha is feeling better. Why, you'll be running recklessly into danger against overwhelming odds anytime now.

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Feel Better, Feelings

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• If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.

  Tim Maleeny

  Writing, People, Rejection

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• 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

  Jobs, Eye, Promise

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• Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mean

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• Joseph Beringer...dances around behind me singing some poorly rhymed and slightly dirty song about my [racing] odds at my skirts. 'I don't even wear skirts,' I snap at him. 'Especially,' he says, 'in my daydreams.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Song, Dirty, Racing

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• The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the forefront during a stressful emergency.

  Cody Lundin

  Skills, Survival, Emergencies

  Cody Lundin (2011). “98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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.

  Marina Warner

  Teeth, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Writing, Good Friend

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• He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for.

  Kim Harrison

  Father, Feelings, Risk

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• I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

  David Levithan

  Mean, Trying, Might

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.36, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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

  Opposites, People, Vision

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• Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Seven Months, Two, Navy

  Suzanne Brockmann (2013). “Into the Storm: Troubleshooters 10: Troubleshooters 10”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.

  Etgar Keret

  Fall, Character, Destiny

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• It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

  Alison Bechdel

  Sex, Expression, Defining

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.

  Theodore Roethke

  Girl, Writing, Boys

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.89, Copper Canyon Press

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• I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.

  Joe Satriani

  Music, Men, Guy

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• You’re not the only one who’s loyal and decent, Ture. It’s why I won’t betray Darling. He wouldn’t betray me and I know it. When someone really loves you, they find a way to get to you, even in the darkest night, against all odds. Through the worst nightmares, they are there, holding your hand. They’re there to stand with you to the end. I don’t just believe that. I know it. - Zarya Starska

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Love You, Believe, Night

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• Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Loyalty, People, Together

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• No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

  Robert Greene

  Giving, Facts, Helping

  Robert Greene (2014). “The Concise Mastery”, p.43, Profile Books

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