Low Odds Sayings

#1. What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

Oscar Wilde

#2. Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere and incinerate us all. The risk was low and the test went off, but Rees wonders what the odds would have had to be to discourage the bomb makers.

Dennis Overbye

#3. Probably the most daunting challenge in delivering growth is that if you fail once to deliver it, the odds that you ever will be able to deliver in the future are very low.

Clayton M Christensen

#4. It was simply because, as a doctor, I don't believe a drug should be taken for anything that is just uncomfortable or self-limiting.

Arthur Hailey

#5. Don't sign your name
between worlds,
surmount
the manifold of meanings,
trust the tearstain,
learn to live.

Paul Celan

#6. Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings ...

Angela Davis

#7. Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

Gwen Ifill

#8. We live in a world where a cunt has more fans than a scholar.

M.F. Moonzajer

#9. I believe babies are born as innovative personalities ... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.

Jay Wright Forrester

#10. Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school.

Hank Johnson

#11. We've already had one horrible thing happen today, which means that if you think about it the odds of anything else horrible happening again in the next few hours should now be quite low.

Joshua Donellan

#12. The places where poor children face the worst odds include some - but not all - of the nation's largest urban areas, like Atlanta; Chicago; Los Angeles; Milwaukee; Orlando, West Palm Beach and Tampa in Florida; Austin, Tex.; the Bronx; and the parts of Manhattan with low-income neighborhoods.

Anonymous

#13. Wall Street sometimes gets confused between risk and uncertainty, and you can profit handsomely from that confusion. The low-risk, high-uncertainty [situation] gives us our most sought after coin-toss odds. Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.

Mohnish Pabrai

#14. Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.

Tom Peters

#15. Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.

Jeb Bush