Fearful Odds Quotes

#1. Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods,

Thomas Babington Macaulay

#2. Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Benjamin Disraeli

#3. And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
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Thomas Babington Macaulay

#4. Fuck it.
Those lips belong to me.
They always have.
They always will.

Winter Renshaw

#5. Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we'll get the money.

Paul Bremer

#6. Before I can respond, he takes his hand from behind his back. Holds it out to me. And I break, into a million invisible pieces.
He looks up from me to the sunflower in his hand and back again. "Um...

Jessi Kirby

#7. I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

Dan Colen

#8. Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

Alexander MacLaren