Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

Richard Russo

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

Sandro Veronesi

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.

Salman Rushdie

Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You can't keep it up, of course. the world rushes in soon enough. What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue.

Winston Churchill

It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

Robert Graves

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

William Dean Howells

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.

Wendell Berry

Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them.

Vladimir Nabokov

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.

Our biggest challenge is that Zimbabweans have never experienced any form of free and fair elections and have had 25 years of broken promises and betrayed dreams,

Our bet is that the impact, if there is a lot of damage, will get us $3-per-gallon gas in three weeks.

Our bet here is that stock trading between four and five times cash flow going into next year, ... They've got very little debt. These guys are either buying back shares or looking at other companies.

Janet Jones

Other than the occasional horse race, my husband does not bet on any sports.

People have done very well betting on the dollar in the past year and they're not going to give up just yet, but there is some nervousness. People are cutting their positions.

I played with Tiger and Vijay in the Mercedes. I said to my brother and my wife, 'Tiger's playing unbelievable. Vijay is putting unbelievable.' A betting man would back Tiger, the way he's playing.

Investors have taken risky one-sided bets on a rising dollar this year. Some will likely continue cutting dollar holdings through the holiday period. That's limiting the yen's losses.

Investors don't want to make the bet because it's too hard to call.

Charles de Gaulle

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

If you think of public assistance, it is in some level a large bank. We need to have a process to make sure fraud does not occur, and some people think they can get away with it. It's such a betrayal of the people who want to help out the community as a whole.

Dave Barry

If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from "The Beverly Hillbillies

If you're the gambling sort, you could get into an interest-only product and bet that the market will build equity for you.

Doc Rivers

If you make a lot of changes in this league and even if they can play, it takes time for it to work. Then when you start losing, the snowball starts. I don't care who you are, it's tough to turn around. I would hate to see them next year, even if they make no changes. I would bet you that they'd be much better.

If you want to target and reduce a fish stock, a sure bet is to make it into a fishery.

If you were to have heightened trouble at Grasberg, all bets are off.

If you're a local union, that's your only revenue. I bet if the United Steelworkers were in there, this would be settled.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.

If the K-7 doesn't sell, they have to get out of the processor business. They've really bet the company on the K-7.

Hugh Johnson

If you get that configuration, particularly liquidity conditions, usually you can bet pretty heavily that this is going to be a bull market.

If you put that whole package out again, I bet it would pass.

Natalie Darwitz

If you're going to the casino, I'd probably bet on the U.S. and Canada.

If you're going to bet on the numbers, I think it will be USA 131/2, Europe 141/2.

Hugh Johnson

If you're going to bet on economists and strategists on one hand, and the markets on the other, take the markets every time.