Odds Quotes - Page 20

Speaking for me, I think the odds of bankrupting Exxon are pretty small, but I think the odds of politically bankrupting them are higher. I think if we can use this as a vehicle to get out the analysis that these guys have 3-5 times as much carbon in the ground as the most conservative government thinks would be safe to burn, then that politically stigmatises them, makes them into the rogue industry that they are.

I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.

I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together.

Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.

America is an unlikely place - a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it's now your turn to help keep it this way.

Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be done. Today we are called once more — and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith — that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.

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

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?

I'll never pay above the odds for something if there's a more cost-effective alternative, so I guess that's where the saver in me shines through.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

The parts of the [Civil Right] Movement we recognize so well now were not born from a single decision, but were a complicated and messy evolution of ideas and spirits, coming together after a long, hard struggle to triumph in moments when the odds seemed the longest.

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.