Quotes of: Odds Keyword

Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

Odd Interlude #1

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

Odd Interlude #1

...only think a moment that we are here now, and that that was then, and it has come to this, and how odd, odd, odd it is!

Engine Summer

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...

Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.

Dan Savage

Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved...

Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

In my bones, I know that I am not long for this world.

Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long t...

Stephan Pastis

Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you - perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that s...

Jeffrey Kluger

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.

Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.

Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and th...

Daniel Kahneman

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.

Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: "I guess I'll find out.

Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

Johnny Depp

If you really truly want to know, I've thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I've held my tears so long that I can't cry anymore, that I'm a dry stone and nothing can ever be wrung from me.

Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure