Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yoko Ono

The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.

William Petersen

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.

Evander Holyfield

Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion.

Bill Nighy

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

Charlie Munger

I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

Jim Macaluso

It would be tough for Vegas to put odds on this thing.

Bertrand Russell

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.

Bruce Feiler

The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.

Bruce Kovner

The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The more a price pattern is observed by speculators the more prone you have false signals; the more the market is a product of nonspeculative activity, the greater the significance of technical breakout

William J. Clinton

I'm pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome.

Ursula K. Le Guin

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

Robert M. Pirsig

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

Brian Gibson

patterns or something in it to try to resolve this issue.

Joni Eareckson Tada

...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.

Henry B. Eyring

The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation.

John Locke

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

Michelle Mainelli

It's just the way the large-scale atmospheric patterns have set up.

David Mitchell

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

Richard P. Feynman

Teach principles not formulas.

William Zinsser

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

Wang Jianlin

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

Winston Churchill

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

W. Clement Stone

When you know principles that can motivate you, you will then know principles that can motivate others. Conversely, when you know principles that can motivate others, you will then know principles that can motivate you.

William Lloyd Garrison

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

Tristan Tzara

In principle, I am against principles.

Wendell Berry

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

Ellen G. White

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.