Famous Quotes & Sayings

I just had to hear his voice. I bet I did it 1,000 times when he was down.

Jerry Bailey

I hope more people bet to place than to win.

I have put a bet on Wayne to be top scorer in the tournament.

Dave Parker

I really love the hills there -- short, sharp and twisty. But not until they have some decent snow on them. It's really good now, and I bet it will be even better by the weekend.

I'm kind of surprised there are no shippers. But I don't think my horse scared them away. Everyone is looking for graded-stakes winnings these days. If the Southwest was graded, you can bet they'd be coming out of the woodwork.

If I were betting, I would bet there would be a deal by Wednesday.

Jason Gedrick

I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.

Ron Gardenhire

I'm sure there'll be a lot of people talking throughout the year about Puck. You can bet that we won't ever forget him.

In companies like this, people are looking for change, ... The hedge funds come in and they're going to bet that this is something that will push the stock price up. And it's a decent bet. Icahn's name is important because of the history that he will get something done.

I'm not a big fan of that play. But since no one (on defense) was trailing, it was a pretty safe bet at that point. I thought it was fine.

I know that's one of his strengths. If I was going to bet money, I would guess that he may be coming after that space. That's where he started at PeopleSoft.

Jaromir Jagr

I'm going to do everything I can to be back and help this team. We've got a day to figure out something. I'll do anything to play. You can bet on it.

Alex Rocco

I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.

Sean Taylor

I hope we run it 50 times. I hope they run it 50 times. And I'm going to place my bet on 26. That's the way we're going to like it.

I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. I woke up that morning and thought, 'don't get to the bottom and wish you had a second chance, because in the Olympics, you don't get a second chance.' I was so in the moment; I wanted to feel it, I wanted to be in it -- I've used that metaphor for the rest of my life.

I'm surprised. I bet you all are surprised. That's the way it goes.

Their secret weapon has always been their french fries. I would say that if they do change the oils, I'll bet they did a million taste tests to make sure nothing has changed. But there's always that risk when you're tampering with a product.

The Fed's about to cut rates, and they may cut more from a dearth of sellers than from a host of new buyers. Some people continue to make their bet on the possibility of a 50-basis point move. You see people buying to speculate on a larger cut...you're going to get closer to that meeting and you're going to find fewer sellers.

I'm not really a gambler, but I know if you go to Vegas and bet five numbers instead of one that your odds are better of winning. His odds are certainly better than anybody's right now.

The commissioner told the coaches and the GMs in Indy over the weekend to expect to hear by Wednesday at 4, either we have a deal in principle or we don't. I think everyone on both sides feels like there's too much to lose. If I were betting, I'd bet there would be a deal by Wednesday.

David Murray

The comments are compelling and relevant. I would have used them, too. But it does betray some campaign distress, because they're willing to risk the backlash.

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.

Jacob Bronowski

There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts.

Mahatma Gandhi

No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

Rafael Palmeiro

You can pretty much bet that deal's going to be made.

Groucho Marx

You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it

Enoch Powell

I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.

James Connolly

Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.

James Cook

Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.

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.