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Against The Odds Quotes

And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughte? Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gol?... Alan Moore
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
Olivia Wilde quote: "When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds."
When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds. Olivia Wilde
Barry Bonds quote: "I like to be against the odds."
I like to be against the odds. Barry Bonds
Jesse Jackson quote: "If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never..."
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds. Jesse Jackson
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
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
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
The odds against this were tremendous, but Edith was not interested in the odds; people who thought about odds were unheroic and would never achieve anything. 20 Barry Unsworth
The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place. John Stuart Mill
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth. Marina Warner
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. Hannah Arendt
Tom Osborne quote: "The odds are always against you no matter what your previous..."
The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. Tom Osborne
Steven Gerrard quote: "The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are."
The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are. Steven Gerrard
One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds? May Sarton

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