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

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

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

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
Chaim Potok

Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.
Sheila B. Kamerman

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
Fran Drescher

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

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.
Harold Brodkey

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

I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him.
Enos Slaughter

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.
Patrick Warburton

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

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.
Louis Nizer

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

I like to be against the odds.
Barry Bonds

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

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.
Alan Shepard