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Letter "O" » odds
«And how am I to face the odds, Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid, In a world I never made»
«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.»
Author: Arnold Palmer
(Golfer)
| About:
Chance,
Effort
| Keywords:
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«Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.»
«However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.»
Author: Graham Greene
| Keywords:
Against All Odds, clamor, clamoring, courageous, excuses, Great A, headed, judged, odds, sense of hearing, totally, unscientific
«If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.»
Author: Lance Armstrong
(Cyclist)
| About:
Biking,
Cancer
| Keywords:
emotionally, odds, options, percentages
«And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?»
«It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Defeat - For every winner there are dozens of losers. Odds are you're one of them.»
«God helps all the children as they move into a time of life they do not understand and must struggle through with precepts they have picked from the garbage can of older people, clinging with the passion of the lost to odds and ends that will mess th»
Author: Lillian Hellman
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
clinging, garbage, garbage can, move into, odds, odds and ends, picked, Precepts, The Passion, through with
«A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Against All Odds, heavy, odds, training, winning
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