#odds

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#also #any #black #both #complex

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

— Elizabeth Emken

#good ideas #great #how #i #ideas

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

— Martin Henderson

#challenge #come #great #hollywood #little

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb. ↗

— Benny Hill

#being #bomb #bombs #cut #fly

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country. ↗

— Yahya Jammeh

#despite #emerged #odds #people

I don't play a lot of tournaments, but if I don't win a tournament in a year, people are like, 'What in the world is going on?' People don't realize how hard it is to win tournaments. You're not going to go out and play 10 tournaments and win one of them. Your odds aren't that good. ↗

— Chris Moneymaker

#going #good #hard #how #i

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#challenge #desk #face #genius #go

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president. ↗

— Michael Reagan

#becoming #child #ending #movie #movie star

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1. ↗

— Ernest Rutherford

#against #anything #bet #more #never

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#having #most #most powerful #odds #powerful