#odds

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

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#certainly #chance #i #i think #maybe

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

— Enos Slaughter

#give #got #guy #him #i

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#baseball #beat #because #betting #gambling

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

— Tom Stoppard

#gamble #life #life is a #odds #take

The big man shrugged, "I don't know. You're pretty good with the cards. Tell me what the odds are." [She] shifted her gaze to Michael, then back at Hollis. "This isn't a question of odds. Of all the men in the world, that woman chose you. If she's still out there, she's waiting for you. Staying alive any way she can until you find her. That's all that matters." Everybody waited for what Hollis would next say. "You're a real ball-buster, you know that? ...Let me pack a few things. ↗

— Justin Cronin

#odds #love

What do you think my chances might be of finding a soul mate in the group of you? I'll be lucky if I can just find someone who'll be able to stand me for the rest of our lives. What if I've already sent her home because I was relying on some sort of spark I didn't feel? What if she's waiting to leave me at the first sign of adversity? What if I don't find anyone at all? What do I do then, America? ↗

— Kiera Cass

#marriage #odds #soulmates #marriage