Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Honore de Balzac

A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

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.

J. K. Rowling

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

If George Mason had lost by two, we would have forgot about them. The public will probably bet them now.

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'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.

I don't see this as an upset. I bet everyone else in this gymnasium does, but I don't. History doesn't mean anything. It all comes down to who works harder during the year and who comes ready.

People are snapping up medium-term debt on bets the BOJ will take its time raising rates after a shift in policy.

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.

Overall, they were a bit concerned about inflation and see strong growth, which supports the notion that they will continue to tighten policy. But after Katrina, all bets on how much they might tighten are off the table,

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.

Val Guest

Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

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.'