Odds Quotes - Page 18

• It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wise, Writing, Thinking

  "How to be Hopeful". Commencement Address by Barbara Kingsolver, today.duke.edu. 2008.

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• in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea; I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love.

  Charles Bukowski

  Prayer, Lying, Drinking

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• No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.

  Alfred Lansing

  Men, Survival, Doe

  Alfred Lansing (2014). “Endurance”, p.247, Perseus Books Group

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• I wanted more of her, & no matter what happened between us, I already knew I’d never forget anything about her. As crazy as it sounded, she was becoming part of me, & I was already dreading the fact that we wouldn’t be able to spend the day together tomorrow. Or the day after, or the day after that. Maybe, I told myself, we could beat the odds

  Nicholas Sparks

  Crazy, Together, Matter

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “Dear John”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

  Martin Henderson

  Challenges, Hollywood, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I thought bringing those two [Taylor Sheridan and David Mackenzie] together, odds are you're going to come up with something pretty good.

  Jeff Bridges

  Two, Together, Come Up

  "Jeff Bridges talks to us about his gripping new movie and why he wants to play The Dude again". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. August 8, 2016.

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• I just love seeing people embrace freedom, faith, and courage in the face of enormous odds.

  Edwina Findley

  People, Faces, Embrace

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• The parts of the [Civil Right] Movement we recognize so well now were not born from a single decision, but were a complicated and messy evolution of ideas and spirits, coming together after a long, hard struggle to triumph in moments when the odds seemed the longest.

  Andrew Aydin

  Struggle, Ideas, Long

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I want to put the interests of ordinary working people right up there, center stage. Those people who - you know, they're working all the hours. They're doing their best for their families and sometimes they just feel the odds are stacked against them.

  Theresa May

  People, Ordinary, Who You Know

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We thought that the odds of things working OK were up in the upper 90 percent or we wouldn't have gone. But the - there were some problems cropped up on the flight but was able to take care of those OK and - although they were things that we hadn't really trained that much for. But it was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and the Russians were claiming that they were - Soviets were claiming they were ahead of us in technology.

  John Glenn

  War, Technology, Care

  Source: www.npr.org

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• On the question of opposition, I think there are - when you want to send a signal if you're on the Democratic side that this is a very right wing cabinet at odds with so much of what [Donald] Trump said. And it's also going to be fascinating to see if your Republican Party in the congress actually goes along with those aspects of the Trump plan that are designed to raise wages.

  E. J. Dionne

  Party, Thinking, Wings

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the white man runs around here with a doctrine that Mr. Muhammad is advocating the violence when he is actually telling Negroes to defend themselves against violent people.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Men, White Man

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell you, in case you don't know it, that you got a new - you got a new generation of black people in this country, who don't care anything whatsoever about odds. They don't want to hear you old Uncle Tom handkerchief heads talking about the odds.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Uncles, Talking

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we are in base reality would be one in billions.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Reality, Games, Would Be

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Speaking for me, I think the odds of bankrupting Exxon are pretty small, but I think the odds of politically bankrupting them are higher. I think if we can use this as a vehicle to get out the analysis that these guys have 3-5 times as much carbon in the ground as the most conservative government thinks would be safe to burn, then that politically stigmatises them, makes them into the rogue industry that they are.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Government, Guy

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding.

  Truman Capote

  Men, Knowing, That One Person

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• Being at odds with policies is nothing new to me.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Policy, Nothing New

  Source: inthesetimes.com

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• Donald Trump became seen as a credible businessperson with a real track record, even though that was at odds with reality.

  Timothy L. O'Brien

  Real, Track, Records

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected.

  Richard N. Haass

  People, Campaigns, Enough

  "Examining The Foreign Policy Outlook Of Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.

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• You can increase the odds of spotting the weak points in your approach if you really think about the end-to-end business model you plan to follow - how you plan to create, capture, and deliver value.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Thinking, Weak Points, Increase

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Statistical high Vegas odds probability is that nothing of any significance will ever happen to you in your entire boring life.

  Doug Stanhope

  Vegas, Boring, Significance

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• 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.

  Elon Musk

  Outcomes, Tesla, Said

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• I love you.” His voice was straightforward, affectionate. “You make me remember who I used to be. You make me want to be that man again. Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together. I’m yours, if you’ll have me.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Love You, Men, Voice

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale”, p.1093, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Charles Bukowski

  People, Perspective, World

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• All of the major accomplishments that I have made in my career have been in many instances against the odds.

  Herman Cain

  Careers, Accomplishment, Made

  "Historic!!! Republican Presidential Hopeful, Herman Cain, Currently Leading in Polls, Speaks With Chris Yandek and Jay Bildstein of CYInterview: Agrees With Getting Washington to Lead By Example, Having the President, Vice President and Congress Take a Substantial Pay Cut, Much More". Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. October 8, 2011.

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