Famous Quotes & Sayings

The pattern of the equity market lately is that it doesn't retain its bid for long. Bonds started to strengthen on a bet that stocks would weaken. It's rare that stocks hold a bid these days.

Ernest Rutherford

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.

Leah Busque

Learn to bet on yourself and have confidence in your own decisions. No one knows your business better than you.

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

Sandro Veronesi

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

Walter Benjamin

I think that the greatest betrayal that a revolutionary can participate in is to become like the people you are struggling against. To become like your persecutors. I think that is a betrayal and a sin.

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.'

Birdman

I'm not really a gambler, but I'll bet on the Super Bowl or some boxing. Something I feel comfortable with.

Trading volume is dwindling and we are probably not going to see large bets today and tomorrow, and especially after inconclusive economic data.

Toymakers are bringing back proven hits because it's less risky than betting on something new,

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.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.

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.

Charles Thomas

We were all kind of taking side bets about if he was going to go (to the NBA) or not. We kind of figured that he was. When you have people in your ear, telling you you're in the first round, why not (leave)?

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

Richard Anderson

When you start getting a frenzied type situation going on, all bets are off. I'm sure a lot of people are taking a look at all of this, and considering it, and there are any number of potential buyers out there that may be willing to up the price.

We're down in betting and I'm very disappointed, ... We did everything we could do to improve the racing product. Everybody told me a year ago it was all about purses.

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.

The rates prospects are giving courage to people. They want to buy one day before the market rises and many are betting that it will rise more tomorrow.

Wentworth Miller

Growing up, I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test, and there were a thousand ways to fail, a thousand ways to betray yourself, to not live up to someone else's standards of what was accepted, of what was normal.

Darrell Issa

The American people have a right to know on the rare occasions in which their money is used to invest in private operations, if you will, take bets on capitalism, that is very well vetted, very well thought out and without political interference.

Louie Anderson

If I have food in the house and I'm laying in bed, I go, 'I bet that Captain Crunch is lonely in the cupboard.'

The proposal is an insult to all people who want to have democracy as early as possible. If we support the government, it would be a complete betrayal to our voters.

Mark Richt

We have worked on it a lot. (Quarterback D.J.) Shockley just has great voice inflection. He's doing a great job of mixing up the cadence. I bet we're averaging three a game and maybe even more. We've gotten a bunch of people to jump offside just because of our cadence.

Mark Richt

We have worked on it a lot, ... (Quarterback D.J.) Shockley just has great voice inflection. He's doing a great job of mixing up the cadence. I bet we're averaging three a game and maybe even more. We've gotten a bunch of people to jump offside just because of our cadence.

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.

Paul Bloom

Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.

Calvin Ayre

We were small back then. I can remember sitting down here and watching the first bet come in for $15,

We won! We won! We won! Um, unfortunately, I bet on the other team - so we won't be going for pizza.

Steve Jobs

We didn't have anything to go on, ... It was our first film and you know there was sort of a betting pool around here as to how well it would do, and I would say the majority of folks thought it would be less successful than it was. I think we were stunned.

Ada Leverson

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.