(356 quotes found)
“It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.”
Oscar Wilde
“The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.”
Mal Pancoast
“Still, I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds”
Louis Nizer
“Never tell me the odds.”
Han Solo
“The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.”
Clark Gable
“And how am I to face the odds, Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid, In a world I never made”
Alfred Edward Housman
“Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.”
William O'Rourke
“Overconfidence - Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.”
Larry Kersten
“It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.”
Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
“On Louis Theroux: He's quiet, gangly and teases people into saying very odd things. Whatever he's got, they should bottle it.”
Chris Tarrant
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