Famous Quotes & Sayings

So far, so good. I bet he is very happy, too.

David Rosenberg

That's a significant statement. We are hedging our bets and don't see a great risk in doing it.

That's a lot of people who want to bet. The bigger issue here is how many people actually bet on sports.

Ernst Toller

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

Companies in Japan still have potential to boost their profits and investors are betting on the strength of the economy.

Despite the prohibitive odds, punters have still been piling in for O'Neill all day, surprisingly the vast majority of bets have come from the south coast.

Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.

Matthew McConaughey

And that's the main buzz with betting games like this. Every weekend, whether I bet or not, I go through lists and try to pick winners in my own life so come Monday, if I did well, I can go 'told ya' and if I didn't do well I can blame it on something else." ()

Rita Moreno

Apparently, I think it's Columbia Records has Betty Wand's name on all of the stuff that I did, too, and that's made me very, very unhappy.

As far as making a big bet on the weather, even if you're bearish it's still too early to go short in a big way.

Robert Torricelli

as close to a betrayal of the interests of the United States as I've ever witnessed in the United States Congress. It's unforgivable and reprehensible.

The Nasdaq ended mostly unchanged last Friday, and some investors bet it was a good chance to hunt for bargains.

A Fed move in late summer is a high probability bet right now.

P. J. O'Rourke

Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'

William Butler Yeats

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last slouches toward Bethlehem to be born

Are you right to want to make sure that the kids of working families have health coverage, even if it's Medicaid? You bet you are.

Gore Vidal

Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

Calvin Ayre

Each week, just before the kickoff of Monday Night Football, thousands of bettors visit Bodog.com to cash in on their sports-betting intuition. The Monday Night Football 'horse trailer' proposition bet is simply another offering we provide to enhance our players' wagering experience.

Jack Kelly

Especially in the Chicago area, there will be a 10 percent to 15 percent decrease in bets wagered.

Roughly 40 percent of our business comes from south of Colorado Springs. Logic would tell you that it is probably a pretty good bet that we are concerned about the proposal.

Qualcomm is hedging its bets -- in case CDMA eventually gets killed off or loses out to OFDM.

RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.""Now lay your bet with mine, nor let These gamblers take your cash.""""Nay, this child makes no bet."" ""Great snakes! How can you be so rash?"" --Bootle P. Gish

Reading a book is a very human experience, and Betty engaged in the humanity of putting children and books together.

Prior to BET, especially in its 24-hour version, I think standard commercial television did not do a good job of representing people of color. BET created a place where all those people could be seen in all the different vestiges they come in.

Private-equity firms like strong cash flow and you have that in a betting operation. I think they want to get in there before a possible IPO.

Janet Jones

At no time did I ever place a wager on my husband's behalf, other than an occasional horse race. My husband does not bet on any sport.

At this point I am guessing that the Fed is pretty committed to raising rates in January but after that all bets are off.

Ernesto Zedillo

concealment and deceit .. and betrayal of the army.

John Ashcroft

Corrupt corporate executives are no better than common thieves when they betray employees and investors,

Confidence is slipping, manufacturing is slowing, and even with today's jobs report, the employment trend is still negative. The bet here is that the Federal Reserve will have to stop raising rates in order to keep the economy from sliding further.

Bill Nelson

Do we have a problem in energy? You bet we do, but we can't drill our way out of our problem,

John Hammond

They were e-mailing each other back and forth. I'll bet 80 percent of the thing was done that way.

Brian Roberts

This is a major breakthrough. It's a precedent, ... We're moving to personalized television. That's the strategy Comcast has bet on.