Quotes About Odds

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

Last will never be more important than commitment. Commitment stacks the odds of a successful relationship in my favor.

Because it shortens the odds against us," said Sandor. "It affords us the opportunity to take control. Because what we do not know controls us.

Faith in technique is the religion of the dangerous trades. To go up against an armed felon in a gunfight or to fight him in the dirt you have to believe perfect technique, hard training, will guarantee that you are invincible. This is not true, particularly in firefights. You can stack the odds in your favor, but if you get into enough gunfights, you will be killed in one.

No one knows how to gamble and win, that's why they call it gambling.

Dark Bakura: The odds are a bit against you. But that doesn't mean you've lost yet...

Dark Bakura [to YÅ«gi]: The odds are a bit against you. But that doesn't mean you've lost yet...

Men dream of the unattainable, and sometimes even achieve it. But the house odds were always stacked against visionaries.

The odds are great, so great as to be almost impossible. But they are no greater than the odds against a soul landing in a human incarnation. And you," Rinpoche was staring right at me, "you have beaten those odds. And so I ask you, what are you going to do with this opportunity?

One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one

I don't understand," I said. Neither did they, really. All they could say was, "It's one of those one-in-a-million cases." Such comforting odds, except when you were the one. It was like finding out the world was made of gossamer and could be so easily ripped apart. To be so solely at the mercy of fate.

Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

You can come with me and triumph against impossible odds, or you can reject the challenge of the gods and stay here. Would you rather be a hero in charge of your own destiny or a martyr wallowing in self-pity? What will it be?

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.

She zips back to the podium, and I don't even have time to wish for Gale's safety when she's reading the name. "Peeta Mellark." Peeta Mellark! Oh, no, I think. Not him. Because I recognize this name, although I have never spoken directly to its owner. Peeta Mellark. No, the odds are not in my favor today.

So Haymitch, what do you think of the games have one hundred percent more competitors than usual?" asks Caesar. Haymitch shrugs. "I don't see that it makes that much difference. They'll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.

Greeting to the final contestants of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. The earlier revision has been revoked. Closer examination of the rule book has disclosed that only one winner may be allowed," he says. "Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor.

Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor.

May the odds be ever in your Favour

I don't see that it makes much difference. They'll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.

I don't see that it makes much difference. They'll still be 100% as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.

And again and again when I held out those berries that meant different things to different people. Love for Peeta. Refusal to give in under impossible odds. Defiance of the Capitol's inhumanity. Haymitch