Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michel de Montaigne

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

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.

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.

Khaled Hosseini

He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.

All these alternative energy sources are unlikely to make a dent in the big picture. It's going to be many, many years into the future before we see any meaningful results. I don't think any real analysts or investors are betting the ranch on hydrogen.

All the major vendors are hedging their bets with Linux.

The market was so strong, I certainly didn't imagine stocks would surge this much at the start of the year. Foreign investors have been betting on Japan's economic recovery, and that's why they are increasing their holdings of domestic-demand-related stocks.

The market seems to be betting that the storm won't have a long-term impact, but that really depends on how much the storm disrupts the oil infrastructure, something we may not know for weeks.

The manager could have made a large sector bet that flopped; he may have made a large commitment to the fund's top 10 holdings, which then underperformed; or the fund may simply have an unskilled manager, someone who can't pick well.

The market has been a bit bearish. My bet is some funds are taking the opportunity to sell some stocks.

The market has a very consistent forecast for a decline in interest rates and everyone is betting strongly on that. The prevailing expectation is that this may be the last chance to get into the market before rates fall, so we may see a large inflow of dollars in the short-term.

The market is betting two more interest rate hikes will happen in the first half of this year because of pick up of inflation in the U.S..

Henry Taylor

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

John Osborne

You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love... betrayal... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life.

John Mills

As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.

John Calvin

Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas.

Joan Didion

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

Eric Liu

We're all better off...when we're all better off.

John Barth

To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.

Lauren Conrad

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

Juliet Marillier

I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.

Joyce Carol Oates

Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

Livy

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

Loretta Lynch

The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of the brotherhood than to ensnare another officer in a web of lies and deceit.

Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

Emile M. Cioran

A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

The dissenting votes are evidence that policy makers' outlook on inflation is improving. Why not start to bet on a 100 basis- point cut for next month?