#odds

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

— Tom Stoppard

#gamble #life #life is a #odds #take

The big man shrugged, "I don't know. You're pretty good with the cards. Tell me what the odds are." [She] shifted her gaze to Michael, then back at Hollis. "This isn't a question of odds. Of all the men in the world, that woman chose you. If she's still out there, she's waiting for you. Staying alive any way she can until you find her. That's all that matters." Everybody waited for what Hollis would next say. "You're a real ball-buster, you know that? ...Let me pack a few things. ↗

— Justin Cronin

#odds #love

What do you think my chances might be of finding a soul mate in the group of you? I'll be lucky if I can just find someone who'll be able to stand me for the rest of our lives. What if I've already sent her home because I was relying on some sort of spark I didn't feel? What if she's waiting to leave me at the first sign of adversity? What if I don't find anyone at all? What do I do then, America? ↗

— Kiera Cass

#marriage #odds #soulmates #marriage

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

#agents #business #even #go #instinct

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#also #any #black #both #complex

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds. ↗

— Elizabeth Emken

#good ideas #great #how #i #ideas

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

— Martin Henderson

#challenge #come #great #hollywood #little

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

#being #bomb #bombs #cut #fly

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country. ↗

— Yahya Jammeh

#despite #emerged #odds #people

I don't play a lot of tournaments, but if I don't win a tournament in a year, people are like, 'What in the world is going on?' People don't realize how hard it is to win tournaments. You're not going to go out and play 10 tournaments and win one of them. Your odds aren't that good. ↗

— Chris Moneymaker

#going #good #hard #how #i