Top 1200 Odds And Ends Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

It’s better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

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

In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.

My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

The odds were against us being an all-female garage band from California.

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.

The Georgians will treat you like royalty, and the odds are you'll do a lot of eating, drinking and toasting.

When people say 'that's risky,' or when the odds are not in my favor, I'm more motivated than ever.

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don't forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that "each moment of life ought to be motivated." Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends.

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

All of the major accomplishments that I have made in my career have been in many instances against the odds.

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

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

To battle the odds - loss of interest, no funding, discouragement - requires someone who doesn't give up.

I just love seeing people embrace freedom, faith, and courage in the face of enormous odds.

By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

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

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

I have gotten where I am today only because I have persisted against all odds for a long time.

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

The odds of becoming a NASA astronaut - you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning.

I believe in myself and the goodness in others, and I think anyone who rolls the dice with me has good odds.

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that goes into animation, and ends up being almost shot-for-shot the same.

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

I find most American films annoy me because their third act tends to be tying up loose ends and returning to moral values and killing the monster. I think most of the scripts I read to tend to go in that direction and I find that very, very unsatisfying. I want the stories to have loose ends and to pose some questions - or even say things that aren't too comfortable.

Humans treat animals as things that exist as means to human ends. That's morally wrong. Sexism promotes the idea that women are things that exist as means to the ends of men. That's morally wrong. We need to stop treating all persons - whether human or nonhuman - as things.

Relationship means something complete, finished, closed. Love is never a relationship; love is relating. It is always a river, flowing, unending. Love knows no full stop; the honeymoon begins but never ends. It is not like a novel that starts at a certain point and ends at a certain point. It is an ongoing phenomenon. Lovers end, love continues. It is a continuum. It is a verb, not a noun.

Look, for some players, pot odds should guide your decision making.

Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.

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

I was born into long odds. I know what the David versus Goliath story is. My life has been that.

My brother one time after a little league basketball game, I think he messed up or something had happened in the game, ends up getting in an argument with my dad. Ultimately he gets pushed down and he ends up cutting the back of his head. He had six or seven stitches over a 10-year-old basketball game. That was tough to watch.

Shimon Peres was the greatest living example of an unshakable belief in the pursuit of peace against all odds.

Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. "It's finished," we tell one another, "it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.

I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

One of the secrets to happiness is knowing when to take chances. If you don't, the odds are that you will fall into a rut.

Luca Changretta's not someone you want to be at odds with. It's a fantastic opportunity for me, and he's a fascinating character.

It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity.

All the great countries are at odds with one another over something, and yet if they don't cooperate they're going to blow up.

The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth.

Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected.

We fight, even against insurmountable odds, because sometimes we win.

Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch.

I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him.

I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.

I want children to know that they can create the life they dream of despite the odds that are against them.