Overbetting Quotes & Sayings

You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power. — Karl Marx

There was a question I wanted answered more than I wanted anything else, and it could take my life to answer it. This question was What could I be? This was what I wanted to know. — Alexander Chee

Sometimes the truth don't rhyme — Chance The Rapper

He claimed to be a Marxist, the only one of his claims I believed. He had that Marxist passion for oysters and good Sancerre, and that Marxist paralysis when the waiter brought the check. Already it's obvious how much the Communists got wrong, overbetting on human high-mindedness, lowballing human desire. — Francine Prose

...sometimes the truth is cruel. — Stephen King

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it. — Thucydides

If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect. — Diane Von Furstenberg

And eloquence, Henry Mackie says, is really all any of us can hope for. — Donald Barthelme

But you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask. — Elizabeth McCracken

The politician, Johnson's experience had taught him, could make promises without keeping them; words spoken in public had little relation to the practical conduct of daily life. But whatever justification a politician may claim for deceptions, the statesman must align his words with his action. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

All this talk of equality between the sexes is merely an expression of sex-hate.
Men and women should learn tenderness to each other
and to leave one another alone. — D.H. Lawrence

The more diverse your team, the better you'll be at identifying what a diversity of users perceive as problems. — David Livermore

There's nothing better than a glass of wine, a girlfriend, and a long talk. — Karen Fairchild

We have three post-PC devices: the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, the revolutionary device that defined a whole new categoryit's outstripping the wildest of predictions. — Tim Cook