Against All Odds Quotes - Page 2

• It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Honesty, Kids

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.92, Anchor

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• I really like Barack Obama. I think that he's working very hard. He's trying to rebuild our reputation throughout the world. The previous administration was a total disaster, a total catastrophe. He was handed a pretty bad deck of cards. And I'm not saying I agree with everything he's doing. He's a champion. I mean, he won against all odds. When he first announced, people were giving him virtually no chance. And he's just done something that's amazing.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Thinking, Odds

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• Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Song, Love Is, Odds

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 05, 2011

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• 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

  Odds, Law, Rebel

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• When you have a powerful, long-term vision for something, even against all odds and adversity, you will continue to make progress and people will want to get on board. Why? Because everybody wants to be a part of something great.

  Robin Crow

  Powerful, Adversity, Odds

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• Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Odds, Minorities, Gains

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1677, Manonmani Publishers

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• Women who bring up children by themselves do it heroically, they do it against all odds, men who don't feel responsible for being part of their child's life create real strains on that family.

  Jeb Bush

  Life, Children, Real

  "Jeb Bush: 'I'm not in favor of shaming women'" by Betsy Klein, www.cnn.com. June 17, 2015.

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• We need to get to kids who have no idea what we do. We need to open the doors wide and let them in. There are many undiscovered voices out there - voices that, against all odds, can rise up and enrich this culture and perhaps change the very nature of the marketplace for the better.

  Dan Wieden

  Business, Kids, Odds

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• It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the pearly gates open, those who had the valor to think for themselves will be escorted to the head of the line, garlanded, and given their own personal audience.

  E. O. Wilson

  Thinking, Odds, Heaven

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• I loved Married With Children. That was the job that against all odds - you know, when I first read the script, I thought, "No one will ever watch this, but I think this is so fun." So I was really happy to be involved in it. And we laughed every single day. It was the funniest 11 years. We really, really enjoyed it.

  Katey Sagal

  Jobs, Fun, Children

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.

  Nikola Tesla

  Odds, Secret, Lightning

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• In the Tarot deck, the Fool is depicted as a young man about to step off a cliff into empty air. Most people assume that the Fool will fall. But we don't see it happen, and a Fool doesn't know that he's subject to the laws of gravity. Against all odds, he just might float.

  Richard Kadrey

  Fall, Men, Odds

  Richard Kadrey (2007). “Butcher Bird”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W. Murnau's masterpieces, or that you couldn't see so many of Oscar Micheaux's really intriguing race melodramas, made with fierce independent spirit against all odds in '20s and '30s America. That stuff haunted me. They really did bring to life a sense of 20th Century history: cultural history, pop history, gender politics and race politics, socio economic history, all that stuff. It was bracing and instructive.

  Guy Maddin

  Independent, America, Race

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Perseverance, Golf

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

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Gambling, Odds

  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead act 3 (1967)

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• The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

  Nikola Tesla

  Odds, Ideas, Lightning

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, p.28, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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

  Funny, Airplane, Cutting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

  Jodi Picoult

  Odds, Differences, People

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1191, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

  Kent Nerburn

  Mean, Odds, Embrace

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Calm Surrender: Walking the Path of Forgiveness”, p.130, New World Library

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• I'm so moved when I see everyday Americans standing together, against all odds, to make their lives and communities better - whether it's organizing against big factories polluting their air or against big banks corrupting our economy and political system.

  Sally Kohn

  Odds, Air, Community

  "ORIGIN FEM SERIES: Sally Kohn – CNN Columnist". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Past, Odds

  Anne Lamott (2013). “Help, Thanks, Wow”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• One thing about Guantánamo, beyond anything else, is the commitment against all odds to allow Americans to view themselves as the good guy, no matter what the situation is.

  Molly Crabapple

  Commitment, Odds, Views

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of my favorite teams of all time is Fran and Barry. I just thought Fran and Barry last season were just incredible and they just sort of went against all odds and were very successful.

  Tom Ford

  Team, Successful, Odds

  "Exclusive The Amazing Race Interview: Tom and Terry". Interview with Staci Krause, www.ign.com. October 10, 2006.

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• Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.

  Nguyen Qui Duc

  War, Healing, Mean

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• [John] Adams's letters reveal his persistence and determination to win over the Dutch against all odds and to convince them and the other peoples of Europe of the potential greatness of the United States and of the importance of the Revolution to the world.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Determination, Persistence, Winning

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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