Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.
Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.
I just love seeing people embrace freedom, faith, and courage in the face of enormous odds.
Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.
There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U. S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out in this country against all the odds.
Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.
I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you
You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to be represented in proportion to their popularity and students were entitled to professors who share their political or social values. One of the more important functions of college that it exposes young people to ideas and arguments they have not encountered at home is redefined as a problem.
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds. . . And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.
What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.
Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.
I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.
You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.
I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.
When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.
Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.
There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.