Side Bets Quotes

#1. This was yet another consequence of turning Wall Street partnerships into public corporations: It turned them into objects of speculation. It was no longer the social and economic relevance of a bank that rendered it too big to fail, but the number of side bets that had been made upon it.

Michael Lewis

#2. You can't outwit fate by trying to stand on the sidelines and place little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything to play the game, or you don't play at all. And if you don't play, you can't win.

Judith McNaught

#3. If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

H.L. Mencken

#4. I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful; contained so much alcohol they could use it to sterilize their instruments.

W.C. Fields

#5. I barely watch TV. Somehow, I make it work with just the Internet. On TV, there's always so much crap, and you have to flip around.

Chelsea Peretti

#6. Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

Charles Spurgeon

#7. Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.

Peter Straub

#8. There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege, it will always be at the expense of truth and justice

Chris Hedges

#9. we tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in a year.

Mark Batterson

#10. On a really big budget movie you do chemistry reads, and you sort of hedge your bets a little bit more and make sure that these people get along. But on the low budget side of things, I have to trust my gut that when I cast these people, the various elements are going to play together.

Joe Swanberg

#11. When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.

Ingmar Bergman

#12. Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?

Jennifer Weiner

#13. A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.

Publilius Syrus

#14. I like in my free time to walk.

Deyth Banger

#15. I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

Bret Easton Ellis