Odds Against Quotes

#1. Let the Kez come," Tamas roared. "Let them send their greatest generals after us. Let them stack the odds against us. Let them come upon us with all their fury, because these hounds at our heels will soon know we are lions!

Brian McClellan

#2. In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

Stephen Hawking

#3. Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

Robert Breault

#4. The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

Benny Hill

#5. One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one.

Brook Benton

#6. The odds against this were tremendous, but Edith was not interested in the odds; people who thought about odds were unheroic and would never achieve anything. 20

Barry Unsworth

#7. 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

#8. If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no
matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

Brian Herbert

#9. The original Zal story by Ferdowsi gives a very moving account of an infant who had all odds against him - he was left to die in the wilderness and a giant, benevolent bird rescued him and became his guardian angel. This tale thrilled me; I've always wanted to write about it.

Porochista Khakpour

#10. What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

Richard Bach

#11. I'm not usually a girl who hopes for a damsel-in-distress rescue but no matter the odds against it, this would be a freakin' fantastic time for Raffe to come and sweep me into the sky.

Susan Ee

#12. But against all the odds, against even the laws of physics and logic, we did.

C.D. Reiss

#13. Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues.

Cathleen Schine

#14. Horse racing is not so much a business as it is a calling. The work requires too much time and energy to pursue it with anything less than utter passion; and even then, the odds against success can seem practically insurmountable.

Joe Layden

#15. Look in at the Drones and ask the first fellow you meet 'Can the fine spirit of the Woosters be crushed?' and he will offer you attractive odds against such a contingency.

P.G. Wodehouse

#16. The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president.

Michael Reagan

#17. The chances of achieving literary performance are, to the decimal point, the odds against becoming fully human.
That means one hundred and fifty million to one.
Which means one hundred and fifty million in one.

Allan Gurganus

#18. I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

Paul Taylor

#19. But when I look at you, I just know instinctively, that despite the odds against you and although life will always find a way to test you, someday you'll have everything you want. Your ending will be a happy one.

Lang Leav

#20. With four-to-one odds against us, our ability to leave the encounter without serious damage becomes seriously impaired." "Spock," McCoy said gently, "your bedside manner is flawless. You mean, we're all going to be blown to hell." Spock hesitated, then nodded.

Diane Duane

#21. Best definition of "investing" is "gambling with the odds in your favor." The people on the short side of the subprime mortgage market had gambled with the odds in their favor. The people on the other side - the entire financial system, essentially - had gambled with the odds against them.

Michael Lewis

#22. when you read findings like the one above, and see that Jamal doesn't get the job, it's easy to shake your head at the few racist hiring managers who've tilted the odds against him. But the data we see in this chapter shows racism isn't a problem of outliers. It is pervasive.

Christian Rudder

#23. This poem is endless, the odds against us are endless,
our chances of being alive together
statistically nonexistent;

Lisel Mueller

#24. Do not fixate on the odds against you but on victory ahead of you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#25. Leaders (Authors) are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
-Robert Jarvik

Taylor Lee

#26. When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.

Desi Arnaz

#27. I now believe truth lies not in logic but in hope, both past and future. I believe hope can surprise you. It can survive the odds against it, all sorts of contradictions, and certainly any skeptic's rationale of relying on proof through fact.

Amy Tan

#28. Changing entrenched systems is daunting; the odds against reshaping the nation's police forces are high. But there are few things more important than making sure their profession is the brave, honorable service it should be. We have to do it, or watch our communities and our democracy disintegrate.

Ann Medlock

#29. Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do - send for reinforcements?

Robert Breault

#30. Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.

James Bovard

#31. The heavy odds against finding the desired ... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene orderliness of imagined reality, give a special tense dazzle and an atmosphere of tour de force to any photographs that succeed in the search.

Janet Malcolm

#32. Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

Robert Jarvik

#33. Julian gave his brother a slow, sweet smile. In that smile was all the love and wonder of the little boy who'd lost his brother and against all odds, gotten him back.

Cassandra Clare

#34. Because she was seventeen, and still alive, against thousands of years' worth of odds.Because she knew enough to fear what the future would bring.

Lauren Kate

#35. It's us against them, three against countless thousands. But for some reason, and even though it's absurd, at that moment I feel pretty damn good about our odds.

Lauren Oliver

#36. I won't bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

Charlie Munger

#37. I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.

Phil Keoghan

#38. But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times
when the odds were so high against personal happiness
to find love was miraculous, and to fulfill it as best two people could was what really mattered.

Bernard Malamud

#39. The odds are stacked against us until we realize: We make the odds.

Tehya Sky

#40. I think that real 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

#41. I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#42. It comes to him that maybe love is always this way, a long-shot gamble: a bet against the odds that some intangible connection--even one so strange as this--will outweigh all the details and triviality of the world that drive people apart.

Matthew Flaming

#43. 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

#44. I can't explain why I think I can get there, when all the odds are against me. But I do. Even when a big part of me is saying I should give up, I can't. Even when I don't want to keep going, I still do it

Rachel Joyce

#45. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

Winston Churchill

#46. God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.

Kevin DeYoung

#47. To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Marilyn French

#48. Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.

Anne Lamott

#49. The odds may be stacked against you. But I believe when you tap into your unique gifts and abilities, while combining them with a sense of purpose, passion, and perseverance you will not only defy those odds, you will help create a better life for yourself and rest of us.

Charles F. Glassman

#50. Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

Richard Branson

#51. I find nothing to be more heroic than someone chasing their own dream against all odds.

S.W. Southwick

#52. 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

#53. The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

Kool Moe Dee

#54. I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.

Wale

#55. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince.

Emily Levine

#56. My company, Against All Odds Productions, has done print on demand; we were the first to do a book with a CD-ROM in the early 1990s. We do custom covers. It's always fun to do something new.

Rick Smolan

#57. But some things did not change ...
Courage, for instance. Dedication to a cause. Comradeship. When they were strong and pure, when they came from deep in the bone, those qualities could hold fast against all odds.

Juliet Marillier

#58. The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds.

Franklin Knight Lane

#59. Against all odds, beyond every logic, there is hope.

Shilpa Menon

#60. Prayer is in essence rebellion - rebellion against the world in its fallenness. Prayer is the undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal. It is the refusal of every agenda, every scheme, every interpretation that is at odds with the norm as originally established by God.

David G. Wells

#61. It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

William Shenstone

#62. A warrior doesn't focus on the odds stacked against her. She focuses on her heart, on her will to face the evil in her world and defeat it, and then she finds a way to do it. Lorelai

C.J. Redwine

#63. In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.

John Ensign

#64. 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

#65. Hope is an act of desperate defiance against monstrous odds.

Ivo Andric

#66. I remember vividly as a 15-year-old, in 1964, seeing Derry play Glentoran in the Irish Cup Final at Windsor Park in Belfast. Glentoran were one of the two big Belfast teams, along with Linfield. Any rural team playing them was up against the odds.

Martin McGuinness

#67. The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

John Stuart Mill

#68. At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds

Michael Dorris

#69. If a man has to ask for your trust, it's a sure sign that you should not give it. Trust should be earned inherently, without any verbal demands. Trust is knowing a man's character, knowing truth, and relying on that character and truth even when the odds seem against you.

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

#70. Leadership is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. It's about going against the odds and accepting responsibility for the outcomes along the way

Robin Crow

#71. The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.

Steven Gerrard

#72. Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.

Orison Swett Marden

#73. Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

Anthony Storr

#74. He understood terrible purposes. They drove against all odds. They were their own necessity. Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.

Frank Herbert

#75. Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#76. Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

Kent Nerburn

#77. I think portraying human beings trying to hold on to their humanity against pretty much certain odds that they'll die horribly in some way someday, and that they'll face horrible things along the way, I don't know - I think that's a beautiful thing. It's a wonderful thing.

Scott M. Gimple

#78. It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the pearly gates open, those who had the valor to think for themselves will be escorted to the head of the line, garlanded, and given their own personal audience.

Edward O. Wilson

#79. There was no decision to make, really. When, against all odds, the miraculous happened and the spaceship landed for you and the hatch opened, you got on. The end. It didn't even matter if you would wind up as food or taken on a trip to the stars. Some things were worth the risk.

Eli Easton

#80. I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

James Taylor

#81. Ever notice the word 'rough' in through? There is truth to that, though the way may be rough, we are still able to get through it.

Anthony Liccione

#82. My intent is not to inflame Muslims but to entertain readers of great thrillers. At the end of the day, I want people to see a good protagonist struggle against serious odds and do so with courage and honor and integrity.

Brad Thor

#83. I get more inspired by seeing everyday people succeed against the odds than anything else in life.

Suze Orman

#84. I know the odds are all against us and I know you feel this way too
So I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

David Levithan

#85. Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which we will all lose, each and every one of us unto eternity, extending it another year or month or second.

Keith Olbermann

#86. Every successful person in life began by pursuing a passion, usually against all odds.

Robert Kiyosaki

#87. Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.

Ariel Pink

#88. Although citizens of the same country who spoke the same language, they belonged to two different worlds. These worlds were far apart and their chances of meeting slim. But an encounter that happens against such long odds is bound to produce stories.

Xu Xiaobin

#89. Nehemiah rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem when all the odds were against him. Determination and persistence pulsate through your bloodline.

Joel Osteen

#90. He knew he had trusted Wilf against the odds, but somehow he had also trusted that there was a basic goodness to be found in everyone, and that this time he could tap into it.

Rachel Joyce

#91. Take a look at me now, cause there's just an empty space. And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face.

Phil Collins

#92. Out of trillions of organisms that were alive at the beginning of time, are alive now and will be alive at the end of time, only one tampers with its food. You do not want to bet against those kinds of odds.

David Wolfe

#93. In extraordinary circumstances and against the odds, Churchill became Prime Minister instead of Halifax, and that one decision changed the course of history.

Michael Dobbs

#94. But I can tell by watching you That there's no chance of pushing through The odds are so against us You know most young love, it ends like this. - THE AVETT BROTHERS, I WOULD BE SAD

Colleen Hoover

#95. The human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.

Harold Russell

#96. 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

#97. I wish I could make the statement that 'the odds were against me but you never quit', It was not true. I wanted to give up.

Frank Mir

#98. She was pregnant. Lightning had not only struck once, it had struck twice. Against all odds, Keisha was pregnant again.

Leo Sullivan

#99. 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

#100. But think about it: Right from the start the odds are against you. It's kind of amazing that any of us ever get here at all.

Michael Thomas Ford