Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Irish stranglehold on the Champion Hurdle betting remains as strong as ever; in fact, right now, Colm Murphy on his own has a stronger hand than all the British-based trainers.

J. K. Rowling

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!

Michael Ondaatje

There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.

Ralph Nader

Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.

George Carlin

Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.

They are very disappointing. They are very disturbing, and it's evidence of a real betrayal -- a betrayal of the university, and significantly also a betrayal of those young people.

Steven Brill

They both think, ... that the law school betrayed them.

They were betting New England like the other team wasn't even going to show up.

Chris Marker

I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Notwithstanding the trouble, notwithstanding the argument, notwithstanding the increasingly heavy hand of government, notwithstanding the spirit of arrogance we so often display, notwithstanding the growing tide of pornography and permissiveness, notwithstanding occasional corruption in public office and betrayal of sacred trust-I marvel at the miracle of America...

James A. Baldwin

The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.

Fulton J. Sheen

It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

Freddy Adu

I couldn't ask for a better life.

Gillian Flynn

I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Jean Rhys

And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

Grover Norquist

No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file.

Greil Marcus

I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio.

Greil Marcus

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Ian Somerhalder

True statement: Live it, love it, leave the wold better off than when you got here.

Hugh Prather

I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

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.

Robert Rodriguez

If I'm excited about it, I'm pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I'm bored with an idea, you can bet they're going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I'm fairly excited about.

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.