95 Quotes About Odds

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

You can be the one - in - a - million. Don’t be discouraged by the odds to Succeed.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

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

It's interesting how at odds we were then with the Soviet Union,

Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.

Society is at odds with itself.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.