Against Impossible Odds Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Life however is teeming with vitality and is likewise terribly tenacious; holding on against impossible odds in impossible situations over impossible lengths of time.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.

Garth Ennis

#4. That man is my Arthur, a great warlord and a hero who fought against impossible odds to such effect that even fifteen hundred years later his enemies love and revere his memory.

Bernard Cornwell

#5. He had put so much space behind him that he had finally reached that place at which the past was indeed another country, the future was unimportant, only today existed, and even today merely unfolded, minute by minute.

Judith Krantz

#6. One cannot understand a political "system" detached from its societal context

Andrew J. Robinson

#7. You should think before you speak, words hurt.

Ghada

#8. Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

Thomas Carlyle

#9. Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

Baal Shem Tov

#10. Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

John D. Rockefeller

#11. Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much against you." All great poets have been great readers and the way to learn your craft in poetry is by reading other poetry and by letting it guide you.

Edward Hirsch

#12. When something in a sequence is edited, if you repeat an image, but in a different place, the effect is different. Because the brain is remembering, and the different juxtaposition triggers other memories, thoughts, ideas, and so on.

Lynne Tillman

#13. This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

William Westmoreland

#14. Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely from a model created in Rome several thousand years ago.

Stephen Greenblatt

#15. It was astonishing, really, what people could live through. Flora felt cheered up all of a sudden, just thinking about eating seal blubber and doing impossible things, surviving when the odds were against her and her squirrel. They

Kate DiCamillo

#16. May we live impossibly," Sebby said when he opened his eyes. "Against all odds. May people look at us and wonder how such jewels can sparkle in the sad desert of the world. May we live the impossible life.

Kate Scelsa

#17. If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.

Richard Dawkins

#18. Sun adores the body
Moon romances your soul ...

Shonali Dey