Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

James Hetfield

Deceit, Deceive, Decide just what you believe... I see faith in your eyes, Never you hear the discouraging lies. I hear faith in your cries... Broken is the promise, Betrayal... The healing hand held back by the deepened nail... Follow the god that failed.

Janeane Garofalo

This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy.

Esther Williams

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

Ernest Becker

Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self effacement, surrender to the "others", disavowal of any personal dignity and freedom-on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces.

Frank Herbert

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

Jay McInerney

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

Josh Fox

The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.

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.

If I was a betting man, which I'm not, I would say that's probably a good assumption. Right now, we're just focusing on (tonight). We'll worry about Saturday when it comes.

Jason Taylor

If I was a betting man, I'd bet on them being in Detroit.

Wayne Gretzky

If I bet on sports ? I would never embarrass Team Canada or the country or hockey ? I would phone (NHL commissioner) Gary Bettman and Bob Nicholson right now and say you know what, I resign, it's over, even if I made a $1 bet.

If George Mason had lost by two, we would have forgot about them. The public will probably bet them now.

If Fitzgerald comes down with something that strikes the White House, all bets are off with conservatism. It's the post-Bush era.

If I had to bet the farm, I'd say Buick will be the one that goes.

If I had to bet on it? I think Washington. They're on a roll. It's going to be very interesting. Whoever doesn't lose it will probably win it. That means whoever doesn't fumble the ball.

Ross Perot

If I had been in charge of this operation you can bet your bottom dollar that the President, at this very moment, would be shaking hands with freed prisoners. We wouldn't have hit just one camp, we would have hit several.

Michael Buble

If I'm a betting man I think my chances are in the 40 per cent up (range).

I don't think there were a ton of bets placed during this particular quarter, but it does cause some wacky moves,

I'd take one Betty over 100 showgirls any day.

I'd probably press my bet when there are signs that things are getting better. I don't necessarily see that now.

I don't see this as an upset. I bet everyone else in this gymnasium does, but I don't. History doesn't mean anything. It all comes down to who works harder during the year and who comes ready.

Erica Jong

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

Jay Asher

Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.

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.

Harry Chapin

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