Odd Quotes - Page 9

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) 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.

Comics, a lot of them, are really depressed people, and I happen to be somebody that does have a lot of confidence. That's the odd thing about my stand-up. I am very confident. I always was.

We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.

The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.

Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with "Satanic Verses," because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.

The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked to death than the individual who subjects himself to battle shorn of any protection but his own skill, his own belief in himself and in his wingman. Righteousness is necessary for one's peace of mind, perhaps, but it is a poor substitute for agility . . . and a resolution to meet the enemy under any conditions and against any odds.

Marilyn was history's most phenomenal love goddess.

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!

In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

This is the age of oddities let loose.

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

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

A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

Move only when you have an advantage. It's very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.

I keep defying the odds, you know.

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

'I am insecure' means: I can't cope on my own. The odds are overwhelming. I can't resist them on my own. I need us to join forces, stand shoulder to shoulder, march hand in hand.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.

The goddess has never been lost. It is just that some of us have forgotten how to find her.

Get involved in everything you've ever dreamed of doing.

The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.