Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ruth Glick

Is it better to go indie and make bigger profits on each book, or stick with a print publisher's 6%-10% royalties? Since I never could figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up, I'm hedging my bets and working both sides of the street.

Tupac Shakur

I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottleI make mistakes but learn from every oneAnd when it's said and doneI bet this brother be a better oneIf I upset you dont stressNever forget, that God isn't finished with me yet

The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work

What that's saying to the investment community is that I have a safe bet when I put my money into a mortgage in Memphis.

We missed that, and I'm sorry we did. You bet I would have thrown his ass out.

We missed that, and I'm sorry we did. The TV, everybody saw it but us. I wish we had the opportunity to talk to (Vick) because that was complete (expletive). ... You bet I would have thrown his ass out.

What's good about the Lehigh Valley is that we are not dependent on a single industry. We now have a variety of companies here, and we're not relying on the former Bethlehem Steel.

Jason Gedrick

With gamblers, it's never enough. You keep thinking on a conscious level that the prize is whatever the pot is. In poker, you may have a certain goal for the day. But the truth is, as soon as you win, more often than not the first thing that comes to mind is: If I'd bet more, I would have won more.

We feel very betrayed in regards to them taking our money and giving the administrators a raise.

We feel very betrayed in regards to à them taking our money and giving the administrators a raise.

The situation is not good and the worst thing is that there is a feeling that it could get worse. The market is ready to improve, but it depends on what happens abroad...You can't bet on anything.

The sellers are doing just fine because the money is in their pockets, but at the end of the day, the buyers are betting on the future, and there is no way to know how they will make out.

Jeff Raikes

The software business was dominated by hardware companies, and everybody thought they would just come in and wipe us out. People forget that Microsoft took a huge bet to think that an independent operating system and programming language would be successful.

The sports books come up with many ingenious ways to get you to put your money down, ... You have to pick who you think is going to win given the point spreads, but people still tend to bet with their hearts.

David Jones

The simple fact is this: a lot of global investors have been making big bets on equities around the world. Now they're pulling back, ... They're worrying about a riskier world, particularly about difficulties in Asia.

The three products launched today are the first wave of a tide of tightly integrated products. While some Microsoft executives have said that Microsoft bet the company on Windows Vista, the real bet is on integrated innovation.

The Super Bowl has always been the most bet on sporting event of the year. Now online gambling has significantly expanded the marketplace and that means without a doubt this year's Super Bowl will be the most wagered on event in history.

Rose Macaulay

Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus some pathetic ideal standard for our species that survives all betrayals.

Umberto Eco

You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don't love someone for your whole life - that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends ... But you can hate someone for your whole life - provided he's always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart.

Paul Valery

Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.

Pierre Corneille

Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!

Vicente Fox

We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

Robin McKinley

Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.

Robert Zubrin

I would say that failure to terraform Mars constitutes failure to live up to our human nature and a betrayal of our responsibility as members of the community of life itself

Sara Gruen

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it

Sandro Veronesi

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.

Raymond E. Feist

The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.

Richard Russo

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

Tupac Shakur

The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.

Tori Amos

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

Viktor Yanukovych

I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.

Robert Graves

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

Robert Stephens

The family of Dane Heggem has been betrayed.