Hedging Your Bets Quotes

#1. He doesn't believe the dead need our prayers, nor can they use them. But anyone who knows the Bible as he does, knows that our God is a capricious God, and there's no harm in hedging your bets.

Hilary Mantel

#2. What if you quit making excuses, quit playing it safe, and quit hedging your bets?

Mark Batterson

#3. I'm agnostic," I told him. "I'd be an atheist, except I believe in hedging my bets.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. The reason we fear to go out after dark is not that we may be set upon by bands of evangelicals and forced to read the New Testament, but that we may be set upon by gangs of feral young people who have been taught that nothing is superior to their own needs or feelings.

Philip Yancey

#5. The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets tout court, Robert Creeley was born in 1926 and raised in eastern Massachusetts.

Susan Stewart

#6. I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

Hank Azaria

#7. Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

Ellsworth Huntington

#8. [Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.

Marco Rubio

#9. While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#10. A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

Joel Hodgson

#11. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

Na

#12. Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Terry Pratchett

#13. Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.

Doug Stanhope

#14. She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along. Directly above her head, blood peppered

Tanya Anne Crosby

#15. Is it better to go indie and make bigger profits on each book, or stick with a print publisher's 6%-10% royalties? Since I never could figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up, I'm hedging my bets and working both sides of the street.

Ruth Glick

#16. A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.

R.J. Palacio

#17. Jobs are for kids learning and for adults unwilling to follow their dreams.

Ben Tolosa

#18. Nice is akin to not walking under ladders or stepping on cracks. It's a superstitious hedging of bets. A part of you thinks your good behavior will ward off evil. Well, apparently that's not true.

Deb Caletti

#19. My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock, rocks, uranium. Peter and John were two of the twelve apostles - arguable the two most significant. Were my parents hedging their bets?

Peter Greenaway