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One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

Mahatma Gandhi

I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance.

John Atkinson

You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find in a life composed so much of odds and ends… to find a friend who has these qualities, who has, and gives those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you -without these friendships - life, what cauchemar!

T.s. Eliot

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.

Lance Armstrong

You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.

Ho Chi Minh

It's going to be very tough to get a result but despite the odds being stacked against us the lads are relishing the challenge.

Nev Powell

She said because she's a black woman, the odds are already against her as it is, I'm not going to make it worse for her.

Kristiana Bennett

We only had nine guys entered and we got six through. Of course, it would have been nice to have gotten everybody through, but that's not bad odds.

Steve Smerz

They're odds some people may find attractive.

Graham Murray

It always comes down to doubles. You could have the best player in the world, and odds are you won?t win all four singles matches. You have to have good doubles.

Bob Nutting

We know these particular groups have been at odds.

Mike Johnson

We've got to achieve consolidation and some level of reduction of capacity. The odds are greater than they ever have been.

James May

Every mistake you make is only increasing your odds of succeeding.

Nick Laporta

Right now, if I had to bet would the Democrats take the House and Senate back, I'd say no. But are the odds a heck of a lot better than they were three months ago or six months ago? Heck, yes.

Charles Cook

This is a nice surprise, but we've been through this before, ... God knows the odds seem to favor a better year. Let's see what happens.

Larry Rice

What Janet Reno has to consider is, 'Do I go through this long process with the odds against getting the death penalty, or do I end it here?'

Laurie Levenson

Traders figured out that the odds of the hurricane having a major impact are quite low.

Bill O'grady

Those are not odds you want to take chances with.

Rob Pilarski

It seems odds-on that General Motors has to reorganize if it is to solve its problems with burdensome legacy costs -- pensions and health care.

Marty Whitman

The odds are far in Boeing's favor, but at the same time it's a program that's really been tainted from an ethical standpoint.

Myles Walton

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Marilyn French

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Arnold Palmer

They believe in themselves and the coaches believe in them. They've proved that time and time again. No matter what the odds were, it seemed like we could always come back and do great things.

Craig Stinnett

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

Walter Becker

Today's statement ups the odds that the Bank of Canada will be back again with a 25 bp (basis point) 'Christmas present' in December.

Avery Shenfeld

If the intranet is built by your constituents, and you've given them what they want, you've increased the odds they will embrace it by tenfold, ... The best thing to do is work backward from your customer.

Doug May

The odds were long on this happening, and it would not have been possible were it not for those actors and director moving other projects out of the way.

Jerry Weintraub

This significantly reduces the prospects of any interest cut until at least August. Indeed, it increases the odds that the eventual next move in interest rates could be up.

Howard Archer

You would have thought fourth-down-and-26 was pretty good odds.

Bob Slowik

The odds against finding it so many years afterward were phenomenal.

Mike Fleming

Any casualty loss would increase the odds of being audited.

Larry Kars

These are random and odds ways to gauge what the public thinks.

Bob Burns

I knew he had three 5s, ... But you make that last call not just based on your hand. You have good pot odds and the draws that I have, and it's time to take a chance because we are in the big money now. It's time to kill or get killed.

Amir Vahedi

It certainly seems to be seriously at odds with the nation's public statements about its plans.

Joseph Finnerty

I think that, you know, the odds are good, because they are good songwriters, they're a good band, they're a great band, and they can play.

David Fricke

I'm sure if you do the odds, it's not 50-50, but I really wouldn't doubt it one bit.

Brad Wilson

The odds of them stopping this are not high. They are fully committed to walking.

Matthew Dodds

They always want everything, but when you are in a labor organization, the odds are you aren't going to get everything, ... At some point, you have to know when to hold them and when to fold them for the long-term benefit of your members.

Morgan Fairchild

The fact is, space technology can and does fail. And when you start using nuclear materials in increasing numbers, the odds of an accident increase.

Bruce Gagnon

He really fought the odds. They took away football, but he still did four years of college and will graduate.

Willie Davis

I saw one man who came with a big trailer and left with a few odds and ends - an old clock that probably won't run and about about 50 feet of garden hose.

Gregory Rodriguez

The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen.

Tony Goldwyn

I wouldn't put odds on it, but I really do think a settlement is going to happen.

George J. Mitchell

[Glanville said he faced similar long odds 15 years ago, when he was the Atlanta Falcons' head coach.] We were a 17-point underdog (against Houston), ... For pro football, that's huge.

Jerry Glanville

It's impossible to say whether a life jacket would have made a difference for Mr. Seidel, but certainly it would have helped. Had this individual had a life jacket on, he certainly would have improved his odds.

Dan Tredinnick

Most important, maintain a healthy weight; being too thin or too heavy can lessen your odds of conceiving.

D. Milton Stokes

Anytime you can get odds like that, you've got to take them.

Hal Stratton

When the same person fills both roles, the odds are much less that the board will challenge inappropriate decisions.

Alan G. Hevesi

... this raffle is valued at $7000, and is definitely worth the odds!

Kevin Chambers

I was very eager because I think it's important for women to do everything to better our odds not to get it.

Susan Shea

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

Charles Buxton

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Tom Osborne

Overconfidence - Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.

Larry Kersten

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

Paul Dickson

On the one hand, you have the feeling he is doing it to show (the US) he is independent, on the other hand you have the feeling that he is going to cover his odds.

Danielle Pletka

I knew the odds were against us ... but I knew I had to do something else.

Annmarie Morse

Listen, we're entrepreneurs. And entrepreneurs are used to long odds. We're used to people telling us we can't do it.

Don Rogers

I think both companies benefit from this partnership in terms of increasing their odds to win.

Bill Tolpegin

What are the odds of that?

Dale Hedges

He has definitely left the door open for further easing. 'Mixed' isn't good enough for the Fed. so I think the odds are significantly greater now than they were just a half-hour ago that the Fed could potentially ease at the January meeting.

Ann Hurley

Don had to overcome a lack of cardio-conditioning to fend off his Round Valley opponent in the last dual of the night. But, you expect no less from Don; he is a fighter and will absolutely never give up no matter what the odds.

Rich Ormand

I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds.

Dana Reeve

We have two things that are at odds. But I still think proximity is far more important.

Liz Brown

Based on our experience, and the number of cabs that are not licensed, if you see a lot of Yellow Cabs running around town odds are some of them aren't licensed.

Michael Zuzel

If I were to make a prediction now, I'd have New Jersey and San Jose in the finals. And both are available at double-digit odds (to win the Stanley Cup) as the playoffs begin.

Patrick Bartucci

This raises the odds that manufacturing payrolls may finally break through on Friday and register a gain.

Steve Stanley

The missing link is jobs. But I would guess the odds are 70 or 80 percent that we're going to see strong job growth in the next few months.

Bill Sterling

What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?

Theodore Roethke

The odds are always stacked against you.

Kari Lizer

Never tell me the odds.

Han Solo

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

Ernest Rutherford

As far as I know, we've never recovered a car that has been missing almost four decades. The odds against finding it so many years afterward were phenomenal.

Mike Fleming

So it's not just a silly little stamp collection that's just sitting there. It's just awesome to see the accomplishments of black people, sometimes against great odds.

Roxanne Chase

I'd hate to bet against Mark Lanier. He knows how to beat them. I would say the odds are probably against Merck in this case.

Jason Napodano

It would be tough for Vegas to put odds on this thing.

Jim Macaluso

The extra skills are going to help a lot. We're all beefing up our tumbling, and hopefully it will give us more tenths. I think we have good odds if we can hit on all four events.

Ashley Jacob

The odds are stacked against the poor people who can't afford to pay an attorney in a civil case.

Lee Richardson

He was up against a bigger and formidable opponent in Jackson and despite these odds, he still won by a fall in 1:10 of the first round.

Jerry Lujan

The move (to sell) is not illogical given the lack of control, but it is slightly at odds with the company's more recent moves to add to its National Telco assets.

Christian Maher

But human occupation of the shorelines is at odds with the continuation of these natural processes. Here at VIMS, we've come to conclude that the least intrusive thing you can do on the shoreline is probably the best.

Carl Hershner

Sean has spent his entire odds overcoming odds.

Phil Estes

The odds are that they were killer bees because 99.9 percent of them up here are. That's not as dangerous as you might think. The behavior of swarms are a lot different than hives.

Tom Kelleher

The odds are long that someone would buy Gateway.

Andrew Neff

These people have battled against all the odds... they have done things that most of could never imagine and they're a credit to us.

Debbie Scott

The odds are Marino is going to swim the breaststroke. If they don't swim him, there is a chance that we could hammer them.

Matt Fralinger

Dan is even-money (odds) to solve this problem.

Harry Gray

In the Greenspan days, if he said that we're done, we'd be at 5% odds of fed funds hike in June by now.

James Bianco

We as stroke experts have to ask, what is the devil in front of us? What is the higher risk? Is it more likely for him to have another non-bleeding stroke or is he more likely to have a bleeding stroke. The odds were that he would have another non-bleeding stroke, especially with the hole in the heart.

Dr. Jeffrey Harris

It's interesting how at odds we were then with the Soviet Union.

Scott Carpenter

I would say the odds are very high that it's a homicide. It does not appear to be natural causes or suicide.

Capt. Jon Froomin

It is too amorphous--the picture is cloudy. It looks like it might develop into a very interesting picture, but what are the odds (of that happening)? We don't know.

Michael Gavin

He played like an animal. That's how Bill is. He's a player who, no matter what the odds are, he's going to go out there and fight.

Jamie Mahaffey

It's an odds game.

George Burgess

I hope before too long to be sharing news of my good health and recovery, ... Now, more than ever, I feel Chris with me as I face this challenge. As always, I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds with strength, courage, and hope in the face of life's adversities.

Dana Reeve

The odds are against us and the situation is grim.

James T. Kirk

There were 58 cards here, so I guess our odds were one-in-58. But really, it was a lot taller.

Kirk Shelmerdine

Here's this girl who is really good at rodeo and dancing and these activities are almost at odds with each other with the kinds of muscles that you use and the roughness on your body. It's very demanding. Finally she had injuries that caused her to stop dancing.

Patty Gair

I know it is illegal, sometimes dangerous, but if the jam is real bad and the access road is empty, then I take the chance. The odds are in your favor the police are busy elsewhere.

Brenda Harris

He would stand his ground and take on the older kids, even if the odds were against him.

Robert Schuffert

I would suspect, ... that the odds of being killed as a result of a terrorist use of biological substances are even greater than that.

Brian Jenkins

When you get a good idea, reward it. The odds are you'll get more good ideas from that same employee.

Chester Elton

I know in her mind she thought, 'He'll never see him again.' And honestly, what are the odds that I'd find him again?

Dwayne Edwards

He was often weary, he was often uncertain, but he knew he had to keep on. You can't quit because the odds seems too great.

Reverend Edwin King

We still think that the bigger 50 basis points move is the odds on favorite judging by the current strength of the euro.

Joe Brown and David Brown

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Our offense and defense was clicking. We felt good about that, but we knew the odds of that holding we would have to play good football.

Michael Warren

Mr. Page has, I believe, some very compelling legal grounds to have his death sentence set aside. It may put me at odds with my client, but I'm not going to push him off a cliff because he asked me to do it.

Mike Butler

Such a big prize leads to a lot of magical thinking. People forget about the odds.

Keith Whyte

There was pretty good odds that we were definitely disturbing someone that was attempting to convalesce, or a surgeon who is attempting to do some complicated microscopic vascular procedure.

Brandon Phillips

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

Anne Archer

I can do the greatest commercial in the world, but with the amount of information bombarding people the odds are so far against me.

Jeff Weiss

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

Martin Henderson

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

Matthew Prior

I wouldn't even start to calculate the odds of him winning a big jackpot like that again. He said he wanted to be a billionaire, so I guess this is one way to try it.

Roger Simmons

Even those odds seem a bit short to me.

Capt. Shawn Morrissey

I think the career thing and the actual creativity are sort of at odds with each other, but the creativity is the best thing.

Stuart Townsend

We believe the odds GM management could be held accountable for accounting errors has gone up, and this could accelerate a bankruptcy protection decision that we think is inevitable.

Ron Tadross

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

We talked about it, but we never really thought it would happen. We knew that the odds were extremely large. We still have a chuckle or two about it.

Mike Breen

The odds of an October rate hike have been greatly diminished by this employment report.

Doug Myers

All this mayhem is very similar to what we have seen in Latin America and in Asia in recent decades. It is driven initially by inflation. This is what China must act to contain. So far, it has not. So the odds of a hard landing remain high.

Carl B. Weinberg

What we found is that the signal is so bold and big, that you don't have to do any fancy statistics to beat it out of the data. It's just there, bang. And the odds are exceedingly good that the model did not trick us with this signal.

Tim Barnett

We had no idea [it would be so successful], ... The odds of the book selling 100,000 copies, much less 2 million, are immense. ... It's a lucky fluke.

David Borgenicht

We don't know if this is going to work, but we're going to try it and I very much cast this as a first attempt. The odds are by 2 [o'clock] in the morning, you may have more people headed home than headed elsewhere.

George Hood

When the odds are stacked against you, the only way to win is to be different. You have to go against the rules that everyone is following, particularly if the rules are dishonest.

Bob Macdonald

You play the odds on that hedge. And unfortunately for us, Edwards is just getting really hot right now.

Tricia Binford

I'm not predicting a double-dip recession, but the odds of it have gone up. Instead of 5 percent, there's maybe a 15 or 20 percent chance of it now.

Robert Macintosh

Poker is both math and instinct, and CEOs understand the bottom line and the odds. But knowing the numbers is not enough, they have to know how to read people, something they do every day in the boardroom.

Maria Gomez

I've been out three seasons, so they don't know if I've still got it. So, when I come in, I'm going to be against the odds and I need to be looking damn good.

Darren Hambrick

Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.

Mark Helprin

Deep down, I know she's beaten the odds. God definitely had a hand in this.

Jack Hoffman

It's a dream. Wow, this is a beautiful model. This is definitely a miracle. Because in speaking to the police, the odds of them finding me were a million to one.

Alan Poster

It's what I wanted to do my whole life. The odds are against every kid who wants to make it to the major leagues.

Jason Childers

The odds of death go up dramatically among babies who use adult beds. The numbers are gigantic, much higher than I had thought. It's the best data available right now.

James Kemp

[If there were a] gross disparity ... then the odds are it's price-gouging.

Charlie Crist

There are a lot of odds and ends people like to buy when they move into a new home. Banks might see you as a credit risk if you have ten cards, all of which you could max out.

Michael Kidwell

We will have a huge amount of antique odds and ends that we will rotate through the display cases like we will rotate the cars in the museum, ... Practically every time a person comes back they will see a different museum.

James Jamison

We've been expecting it for the last two years, but it hasn't happened yet. Every season that passes, the odds continue to climb.

Julie Graham

Now the odds are 85 percent that the Fed will move again.

Mike Boss

There were 58 cars here, so I guess we had one-in-58 odds, but really it was a lot taller than that. Really, you don't have a prayer. ... A combination of everything did it for us.

Kirk Shelmerdine

The odds of Gateway finding a partner now are slim.

Andy Neff

We did a great job but the odds were against us.

Paul Henderson

The odds weren't real likely that he would even receive a donor in time. It was just heartbreaking.

Mike Wolfe

Still, I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds.

Louis Nizer

Our players know that somebody, figuratively speaking, is going to beat those odds. It could be any one of them.

Alfred Bea

That is what the Special Olympics does. It encourages people with disabilities to overcome their odds.

Aaron Brooks

Maybe the odds are less than 50-50 after yesterday.

Gerard Arpey

Customers would much rather use a rewards card that will get them air miles or a Discover card that will get them cash back. So the odds that they'll use a private-label card are dimmer.

Theodore Iacobuzio

I have heard some broadcasters say that you can't really make money from Internet radio, but we like to think we can beat those odds because our station is unique. We are a station for cats, by cats, and that will not change.

Nohl Rosen

There was a stepwise increase in the odds of the metabolic syndrome with increasing levels of exposure to work stress.

Tarani Chandola

We will go to Milan to win the second leg. More than ever, the odds are now fifty-fifty. We must not feel disappointed by this draw. We haven't given anything away.

Claudio Cacapa

A few years ago this match would have been inconsequential but we now have clients in these markets and feel obliged to offer odds.

Graham Sharpe

[The consumption tax idea is] at great odds with the political center of the country, ... How do we get to a system that better encourages savings and investment, without creating a system that can be characterized as benefiting the rich?

Clint Stretch

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

Patricia Clarkson

From a betting odds perspective, what is the most unlikely thing to have happened in football?

Paul Griffiths

Nathan is an unorthodox wrestler. He's the type of wrestler who goes against all the odds and gets away with it because of his ability.

Jeff Bricker

I don't want to have to have Chris step on the field, but the odds are pretty good that he will, ... He's definitely made us a better team. And that's the goal.

Jim Miller

Some people might say those are pretty good odds, but if you are in that 10-20 percent group, then those odds become very unfavorable.

Dr. Jeffrey Crippin

The odds are you aren't going to get caught.

John Wolfe

We've already talked to people and it's completely safe, ... And with the exception of a few odds and ends, we're almost done.

Chuck Wilson

For some reason a couple of weeks ago I thought what are the odds of me not coaching in an overtime game yet.

Sam Root

In some ways, you have to defy the odds.

Bob Bales

If the average New Yorker is concerned about being murdered in a random crime, the odds of that happening are really remote.

Michael Farrell

The odds are kind of stacked against us.

Alan Baker

We have beaten the odds.

Erin Dawson

One of the most troubling pieces of evidence (submitted by WRMA) was that 53.6 inches was at great odds with the documented information.

Emmett Brown

It's showing no signs of declining...and the odds that it's going to last into late summer have gone up.

Ed O'lenic

If there's a La Nina around during hurricane season, the odds for more frequent and stronger hurricanes go up.

Ed O'lenic