Famous Quotes & Sayings

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'm kind of surprised there are no shippers. But I don't think my horse scared them away. Everyone is looking for graded-stakes winnings these days. If the Southwest was graded, you can bet they'd be coming out of the woodwork.

If I were betting on it, I'd say he could probably pull it off.

If I were betting, I would bet there would be a deal by Wednesday.

If I were a betting person, I'd bet all that signals this will be his last term.

Paul Horowitz

If I were a betting man, I'd bet radio would work before light. But we've done that for 20 years, and we haven't explored much with light.

Dwane Casey

If I were a betting man, and I'm not, I would say he finishes his career there.

The community outpouring and the donation of clubs has been phenomenal. I bet I get a phone call a day. Our mantra is we don't turn anything down.

The commissioner told the coaches and the GMs in Indy over the weekend to expect to hear by Wednesday at 4, either we have a deal in principle or we don't. I think everyone on both sides feels like there's too much to lose. If I were betting, I'd bet there would be a deal by Wednesday.

David Murray

The comments are compelling and relevant. I would have used them, too. But it does betray some campaign distress, because they're willing to risk the backlash.

Mary Schapiro

The conduct of this analyst, as evidenced by his own e-mails, gifts to the CEO of Tyco, and favors he received from the company amounted to a betrayal of objectivity and honesty in research.

Neal Shusterman

You don’t just go to somebody and say, ‘I’m a better person because you’re in my head.

Neale Donald Walsch

Even a casual observer can see that not one of the systems, institutions, and devices that our species has put into place on this planet to "create a better life for all" is functioning in a way that generates that outcome.

Milan Kundera

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

Lisa Kleypas

I realized I wasn't going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection and betrayal and heartbreak that came along with caring about someone. Someday, I promised myself, I would be ready for that kind of risk.

John Updike

There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

John Updike

All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

John Ralston Saul

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

The inflation scenario is positive all around, and I don't see any signs of it worsening in the near term. I'm already betting on a small rate cut in September, probably by 0.25 (percentage points), and more after that.

You want to bet on the management team.

You will have to pay him on every can of paint, every carpet, every everything that goes into your house, ... He's betting on the next economic upswing again, and that's why Berkshire Hathaway has done extremely well. He's a very smart investor.

Helen Gurley Brown

You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.

Malcolm X

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.

Mahatma Gandhi

No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

Jacob Bronowski

There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts.

The Chicago number showed manufacturing has been picking up in the Midwest. That bodes well for the national number Monday, all of which supports the idea of a recovery, which is what the market has been betting on.

This is already the biggest betting Test series ever, with up to a record 50 million pounds riding on the outcome of the five-match series, and with the unprecedented interest in the outcome of the final match we are expecting cricket punters to bet over a million pounds in a single day for the first time as the game gets underway.

This is a company where management is still committed to spending earnings to stimulate future growth and market share. You are betting with management that their efforts are going to pay off. Is there any guarantee? No.

Enoch Powell

I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.

James Connolly

Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.

James Cook

Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.