#odds

When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat what I wanted to eat, or that I couldn't get my body to do what I wanted it to do. ↗

— Demi Moore

#been #betraying #body #eat #feel

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#always #chance #effort #entirely #even

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds. ↗

— William Petersen

#always #breaks #chose #goes #i

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance. ↗

— Theodore Roethke

#madness #nobility #odds #soul

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

— Darrell Royal

#i #know #lasting #marriage #odds

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#behind #fall #faster #give #never

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#against #am #be patient #best #develop

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

— Robert Jarvik

#concept #developed #fear #leaders #odds

If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#because #completely #construction #everything #experience

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#course #creationists #odds #scientists