Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you think of public assistance, it is in some level a large bank. We need to have a process to make sure fraud does not occur, and some people think they can get away with it. It's such a betrayal of the people who want to help out the community as a whole.

Dave Barry

If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from "The Beverly Hillbillies

If you're the gambling sort, you could get into an interest-only product and bet that the market will build equity for you.

Doc Rivers

If you make a lot of changes in this league and even if they can play, it takes time for it to work. Then when you start losing, the snowball starts. I don't care who you are, it's tough to turn around. I would hate to see them next year, even if they make no changes. I would bet you that they'd be much better.

If you want to target and reduce a fish stock, a sure bet is to make it into a fishery.

If you were to have heightened trouble at Grasberg, all bets are off.

If you're a local union, that's your only revenue. I bet if the United Steelworkers were in there, this would be settled.

Catharine MacKinnon

It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.

Christine Feehan

There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?

George Pataki

Larry Silverstein has betrayed the public's trust and that of all New Yorkers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

Jeanette Winterson

One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the beginning of a relationship. It’s not a word people use very often, which confuses me, because there are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, and then being on somebody else’s.

Jeanette Winterson

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

Been trading up recently? You have, haven't you? You'll be squawking that you're too rational, too busy and too socially concerned for any of that. But go through the fridge - come to think of it, what about the fridge itself? I bet it's bigger than its predecessor.

Because Don Slater was here, and the rest of these guys, Harry Hay, and other, let us say eccentric people were here and were willing to bet their all on an impossible long shot.

Jeffrey Toobin

Cheney has an unusual demeanor for a politician, ... He is low-key in a really profound way. I counted two sentences about domestic policy and about 40 minutes about terror and Iraq. That's a bet that the public shares those priorities. I don't know if it's right or not.

Generally speaking, as is true anywhere, if these kinds of lawsuits take place with American servicemen in the cross-hairs, you bet it's something we take seriously,

B. B. King

Gene bet on Bobby, but I've forgiven him since.

Erica Jong

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

Harry Chapin

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

Alex Trebek

Hey, way to go. I bet our writers that no one would get that.

Felix Magath

He's totally innocent. He never bets and does not even play cards.

He's the victim. He was beaten, abandoned, betrayed and his medical needs ignored by David Williams.

W. C. Fields

Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people.

Barbara Wood

Hotel owners see foreign investors as offering unfair competition if they don't pay any tax. We tell buyers what taxes they should pay, but you can safely bet that many developers forget to mention the tax due on rents. Instead, they are telling British holidaymakers how easy it will be to let their property to help pay the mortgage, which otherwise they might not be able to afford.

Tommy Bowden

I don't know how many touchdown passes (Whitehurst) threw last year. But I bet you by the end of the year we'll have more.

Tommy Bowden

I don't know how many touchdown passes (Whitehurst) threw last year, ... But I bet you by the end of the year we'll have more.

I don't know if I would bet on it, but certainly one can hope.

Jack Kornfield

To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

Jean Renoir

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

Martin Luther

Each betrayal begins with trust.