Top 1200 Odds And Ends Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Where your life ends, your being doesn’t. Where your being ends, you don’t. That is what is able to have and move your forms.

I like the odds when I'm playing the point guard more.

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins in the soul and ends in the heart. War begins in the mind and ends in the body.

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

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

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.

The odds are so against me, one mom and eight kids.

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little bit and laugh, and everyone will have to sing a song. That's how every funeral, christening, and wedding ends up in Ireland. Everyone ends up having to sing a song by the end of it.

The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism.

I love people who succeed in life overcoming various odds.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

I don't like to take people lightly even if the odds are against them.

The odds will always favor the man with a plan

Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.

Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.

Being at odds with policies is nothing new to me.

I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.

'Striker' is a story of the human spirit triumphing over all odds.

Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means.

The old way of doing 'good business' was based on the principle, 'the ends justifies the means.' In the future, good business will invoke 'the means justifying the ends.' The E P&L can already serve as an important tool to help this shift in commerce from generating profits with collateral damages to profits with collateral benefits.

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.

To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and ignoble gait, becoming, unconsciously, something like thorns, in their anxiety to bear grapes; it being possible for people, in the pursuit of even great ends, to become themselves thin and impoverished in spirit and temper, thus diminishing the sum of perfection in the world, at its very sources.

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

The sinful actions of men may be sinful, either from the motives which prompt them, the ends in view, or the means by which they are accomplished. God may concur in such acts, from motives, with ends, and in the use of means which are altogether most holy

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

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

As you get older the odds are against you that you are still going to be on the planet.

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

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

I escaped my destiny. The odds were that I would end up in prison, but I didn't.

To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law - a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.

Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry, my service; the church services in every field must be based on love. Why? Because God is Love.

I've always sort of been at odds with radio programmers.

The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.

The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.

No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

There is always one more thing you can do to increase your odds of success.

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

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends. And whoever has sole control of the means must also determine which ends are to be served, which values are to be rates higher and which lower, in short, what men should believe and strive for.

I've always had a strong desire to prove myself against odds.

So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

If you encounter someone who pronounces the t in often, odds are they're a douchebag.

I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

Means and ends are central. If your means are corroded, your ends will be corroded. And if you're fighting to preserve liberty and you use means that eviscerate our liberties, the end will be corroded, too.

The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic.