Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Genet

Anyone who's never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn't know what pleasure is.

Ian Somerhalder

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

Gillian Flynn

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

Frank Herbert

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

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.

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.

Over the next month, all bets are off. I don't know who's going to win. All I know is whatever comes out of Senate has to be perfect.

Brenda Lee

I've always gone to see all kinds of shows and stole what I could, as we all do. We see an artist and hear a song and think, 'I bet I could sing that song. I'll put that in my show.'

Maxwell Maltz

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Seth Shostak

It will be the mother of all telescopes, and you can bet it will do for astronomy what genome sequencing is doing for biology. The clumsy, if utilitarian, name of this mirrored monster is Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST. You can't use it yet, but a peak in the Chilean Andes has been decapitated to provide a level spot for placement.

Beth Brooke

Some companies are already investing in women and thereby betting on a brighter future - for a workforce just waiting to blossom, for emerging economies whose development depends on this new talent, and, of course, for their own financial growth.

We don't have T-shirts, yet, ... We're in the infancy stage. But you can bet we're working on it.

America Ferrera

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

Bob Beauprez

The number of realists who are betting that both the 'economy gets healthy soon' and this government gets spending under control is a tiny group, indeed.

Scott Bakula

Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows.

Walter Mare

Three jolly Farmers / Once bet a pound / Each dance the other would / Off the ground.

Henry Fonda

I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

Henry Williamson

With the dried blood stiff on my temples I climbed the hill, cursing the satanic way of men, yet knowing myself vile, for they had not known what they were doing, but I betrayed an innocent; and the tears - weak, whiskey tears - would not wash from my brow the blood of a little brother.

We must all be concerned about the threats that the Shin Bet head spoke about. Israel must stop playing ping pong... and nip the threat in the bud.

When you are investing in J.P. Morgan, what you are really betting on is Jamie and Jamie's team, ... You are betting that Jamie's team of expense control czars are going to be able to fully integrate this business.

When she sings, she embodies the song in ways that many singers don't. I thought, 'I bet she can act.' And she can.

Dalton Trumbo

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

But North Korea's betting with its strongest hand failed to spur its negotiations with North Korea, but instead worsened the crisis situation on the Korean peninsula.

Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, / Though I must slave for livelihood - / Think you that I would change with him? / You bet I would!

Bryan Fuller

With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.

Cormac McCarthy

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

Amandla Stenberg

'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy fantasy in it, it's such a raw story, and I can really relate to the characters. I think it's a beautiful story.

There has been less volatility overall on these numbers, and making the big bet has not really paid off.

We said no. We're going to place our bets on the broadcast media names.

Paul Simon

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

Zig Ziglar

When a company or individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner and you can bet your last nickel on it.