Famous Quotes & Sayings

Publilius Syrus

When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

Nelson Mandela

Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately from my colleagues, who had contributed as much as and even more than I had, would have been a betrayal of them.

Joe Sakic

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

Honore de Balzac

A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

Kresley Cole

Those who betray me only do so once.

Oprah Winfrey

My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals - I remained faithful, hopeful, and open to seeing the best in people, regardless of whether they were showing me their worst. I stayed open to believing that no matter how hard the climb, there is always a way to let in a sliver of light to illuminate the path forward.

Margaret Atwood

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil

Margaret Atwood

Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.

Frank Herbert

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

Pablo Picasso

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us...

Oscar Wilde

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

Lucien Bouchard

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

Louis Farrakhan

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.

If the K-7 doesn't sell, they have to get out of the processor business. They've really bet the company on the K-7.

Arlen Specter

If there was a telephone call where someone gave assurances about how she's going to vote in a case, you bet that's something we'd look into, ... Absolutely. It is not tolerable to have any commitments about how a nominee would vote on a case. Not tolerable.

If there is anything more than 250,000 jobs then everything reverses and all bets about a pause at 3.25 percent are off,

Warren Rudman

I think all bets are off, ... Who knows what's next?

Ravi Teja

I just trust the director and never overanalyse the script, screenplay, etc. You are just taking a bet at the end of the day, so confidence, be it on the filmmaker or the script, is all that counts.

Chauncey Billups

I just heard about it, ... I wasn't really paying attention. That's cold. Bet they won't do that again.

Clearly there had been a fourth quarter bet that technology would outperform, but they disappointed and people ran for the exits. I would say financials also disappointed.

Clearly, as a betting man, I would have to say the probability of a recession has gone up significantly,

I have put a bet on Wayne to be top scorer in the tournament.

Brendan Shanahan

I haven't heard anything about the betting being on hockey, and that's a very important distinction. It sounds as if it's college football and Super Bowl betting, stuff like that.

I haven't experienced a lull in trading like we've had in the last couple of weeks in years; it just seems no one really wants to make any huge bets going into the FOMC meeting, because they could say anything.

Dave Parker

I really love the hills there -- short, sharp and twisty. But not until they have some decent snow on them. It's really good now, and I bet it will be even better by the weekend.

I played with Tiger and Vijay in the Mercedes. I said to my brother and my wife, 'Tiger's playing unbelievable. Vijay is putting unbelievable.' A betting man would back Tiger, the way he's playing.

Investors have taken risky one-sided bets on a rising dollar this year. Some will likely continue cutting dollar holdings through the holiday period. That's limiting the yen's losses.

Investors don't want to make the bet because it's too hard to call.

Investors are betting on Apple's music story and not the Macintosh story. If they were betting on the Mac story, the stock would be in the teens.

Investors who don't want to take the risk of betting either yes or no are squaring positions, resulting in selling of recent gainers.

In the past our bettors have correctly predicted the outcome of television shows like American Idol, as well as world events including the Papal conclave and Presidential elections. If the betting trend continues, it could mean the end of the line for Uncle Junior or Christopher, who both have several risk factors making them vulnerable to being killed-off.

Charles de Gaulle

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.