#odds

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#democrats #despair #elections #favor #gloomy

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful! ↗

— Paul Taylor

#against #audience #here #human #human nature

When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat what I wanted to eat, or that I couldn't get my body to do what I wanted it to do. ↗

— Demi Moore

#been #betraying #body #eat #feel

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#always #chance #effort #entirely #even

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

#always #breaks #chose #goes #i

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance. ↗

— Theodore Roethke

#madness #nobility #odds #soul

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#i #know #lasting #marriage #odds

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#behind #fall #faster #give #never

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

#against #am #be patient #best #develop

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. ↗

— Robert Jarvik

#concept #developed #fear #leaders #odds