Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Williams

Ninety percent of the clients I see, if they get a raise, the first thing they say is 'I can bet a bigger house or a better car.' Not 'I can pay off (the mortgage and car loan) I have now,'

On the inbounds play, I told Rachel I would have bet my house that she would've hit that 3. I could just see it in her eyes.

Damon Runyon

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.

Pete Rose

I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.

Priscilla Chan

We've invested in Newark's children, the schools and teachers, and these are long-term bets that need a number of years to really pan out. We've seen and learned how important it is to listen to the community and really get a sense of what they need and want. And it's a long journey.

Mark Richt

We have worked on it a lot. (Quarterback D.J.) Shockley just has great voice inflection. He's doing a great job of mixing up the cadence. I bet we're averaging three a game and maybe even more. We've gotten a bunch of people to jump offside just because of our cadence.

Mark Richt

We have worked on it a lot, ... (Quarterback D.J.) Shockley just has great voice inflection. He's doing a great job of mixing up the cadence. I bet we're averaging three a game and maybe even more. We've gotten a bunch of people to jump offside just because of our cadence.

Scott Bakula

Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows.

Sandra Tsing Loh

I'm pretty sure that changing diapers of all sizes isn't the kind of women's work Betty Friedan had in mind, nor Linda Hirshman.

Paul Bloom

Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.

You don't bet the farm but you need to be putting some money in as you find stocks that look attractive.

Richard Anderson

When you start getting a frenzied type situation going on, all bets are off. I'm sure a lot of people are taking a look at all of this, and considering it, and there are any number of potential buyers out there that may be willing to up the price.

I said before, hopefully, Belmont day, I would move for every racetrack to have a lemonade stand on Belmont day throughout the entire United States and give a dollar to the lemonade stand or their local juvenile cancer fund. And, like I said earlier, everybody who was fortunate enough to bet on this horse, makes a little money, just take $1, donate it to Alex's Lemonade Stand or local juvenile cancer fund, and maybe we can make the world a better place.

People are snapping up medium-term debt on bets the BOJ will take its time raising rates after a shift in policy.

Over the next month, all bets are off. I don't know who's going to win. All I know is whatever comes out of Senate has to be perfect.

My son watches the BETs and videos and sees the fads. I want him to see that there are other options and teach him to use his head about deciding what he wants to do with his life.

My wife and I were talking this morning, and I said 'What if all Americans said they were not going to drive, everyone parked their cars, what would the oil companies do?' I bet they would lose millions.

My partner turned around and said, 'That car is driving at a terrible speed. I bet you anything when we get up there it's wrapped around a lamp post'. When we came up and saw the body that was it. It just really tore us apart.

Lockheed is hedging its bets just in case it lost out on the Joint Strike Fighter contract. Northrop has a lot of the avionics that go onto military aircraft.

Look how cute that is, ... I bet you I was in a blue blanket at this point.

George Soros

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

Alice Meynell

Red has been praised for its nobility of the color of life. But the true color of life is not red. Red is the color of violence, or of life broken open, edited, and published. Or if red is indeed the color of life, it is so only on condition that it is not seen. Once fully visible, red is the color of life violated, and in the act of betrayal and of waste.

Albert Camus

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

Daniel Inouye

A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.

Czeslaw Milosz

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

Douglas Alexander

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

David Frum

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

David Cronenberg

See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin." --Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch

David Lynch

The more you meditate the better life gets.

Curtis Armstrong

Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

Dalton Trumbo

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

Deepak Chopra

Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.

Anthony Minghella

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.