Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Lilly has been more innovative than most other companies but done worse at execution. There's betting on a pipeline that hasn't panned out in the past.

Ann Widdecombe

I wish I had put a bet on, but thought it might have been disrespectful to the Holy Spirit.

I was in my early 20s and open to alternative lifestyles. I thought, 'I bet you get a lot of attractive, interesting women in a vegetarian co-op.'

I think if you were a gambler and you had a million dollars, you should have gone to Las Vegas and bet a million dollars that Tennessee and Rutgers would meet in the NCAA tournament.

I think he's betrayed the state. If his mission is to take care of the people, and generate business and income for the state, he's gone about it the wrong way.

Frank Shorter

I think he had a wake-up call. ...It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.

It currently seems a pretty safe bet that interest rates will not change for several more months to come, if at all this year.

Phil Simms

It has rained 20 straight days. Are you willing to bet it's not going to rain the 21st?

I thought he was my friend, but he betrayed me. If someone points a gun at you and shoots and it doesn't go off, what would you do? If someone is pointing a gun at you and they start putting more bullets into the gun, what would you do?

Mike Thibault

Jim's NBA career was all about determination. No one studied the game more. He had notebooks on every single player he ever faced. I bet he still has them.

Oprah Winfrey

It is difficult for me to talk to you because I really feel duped. More importantly, I feel you betrayed millions of readers ... As I sit here today, I don't know what is true, and I don't know what isn't.

David Healy

Maybe some of their money managers think, like I do, that the stock is cheap because they aren't going bankrupt. Morgan Stanley has a huge asset-management business, so it's not like they're betting the ranch on GM.

William Butler Yeats

Man can embody truth bet he cannot know it.

Eliot Spitzer

Late-day trading is like being permitted to bet on yesterday's horse races, ... You already know who's going to win.

I went back to school simply because it was a weak job market. I was betting that it would recover by the time I got out.

I will bet you that when it's all said and done, we'll reach our goal of $50 million.

I will bet my bottom dollar that it will bring a significant number of gay and lesbian votes to Cuomo. On the other hand, could Sean, if he ran his campaign smartly, still walk away with a bulk of the lesbian and gay votes? He could.

Debbie Ford

Releasing the invisible ties to those who have left you, betrayed you, disappointed you or hurt you, you open up to higher realms of love, peace and joy.

Oracle is betting on PeopleSoft stumbling sometime next year but that's unlikely,

People have done very well betting on the dollar in the past year and they're not going to give up just yet, but there is some nervousness. People are cutting their positions.

Chris Wilcox

We'll see what the bet is for the next game. I tried to get 19 ... I was a little shy.

William Kristol

Would any of his aides have the nerve to tell him that as Supreme Court jurists go, Gonzales would be mediocre - and not a solid bet to move the court in a constitutionalist direction? Would any of them have the nerve to explain to the president that a Gonzales nomination would utterly demoralize many of his supporters, who are sticking with him and his party, through troubles in Iraq and screw-ups with Hurricane Katrina, precisely because they want a few important things out of a Bush presidency - and one of these is a more conservative court?

We're still betting $3 the Swans, but I can see that shortening.

Bill Murray

I feel like I'm a better person when I'm quieter.

To know you've got that disease and not even care, and it's just a total betrayal to all of the children and their families.

Walter Mare

Three jolly Farmers / Once bet a pound / Each dance the other would / Off the ground.

You know all the rules, and we're going to betray all those rules.

Henry Fonda

I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

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.