Bet Quotes

You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.

What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton.

The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.

I'm a great lover, I'll bet.

You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it.

Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it.

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

Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny.

If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."

Someone 'big' will get thrown out of their Trials or at the Olympics. I would bet my house on it.

I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.

Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

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.