Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Rosenberg

His past and his feelings for the girl he's into are really important elements of the character. There's also the betrayal that he's gone through, and how he moves forward from that.

William Wordsworth

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

William Wordsworth

Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

Richard Russo

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

Salman Rushdie

Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You can't keep it up, of course. the world rushes in soon enough. What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue.

Winston Churchill

It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

Robert Graves

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

Wendell Berry

Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them.

Vladimir Nabokov

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.

William Hazlitt

Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

W. Somerset Maugham

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

William P. Young

It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?

Nathan Fillion

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

Paulo Coelho

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

Pearl S. Buck

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

Lawrence Block

Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

Marc Ostrofsky

Not long ago, the term 'business model' was not exactly on the tip of everyone's tongue. Then, in the early to mid-1990s, 'business model' became a catchphrase that described how a company makes money or saves money.

Takeo Hiranuma

It betrayed the public's trust over nuclear energy,

Bronson Arroyo

I don't feel like they betrayed me. It's just a tough situation. I'm disappointed. I felt like I had done enough around here that they would keep me.

Sandro Veronesi

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.

William Dean Howells

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.

Paul Themba

Our biggest challenge is that Zimbabweans have never experienced any form of free and fair elections and have had 25 years of broken promises and betrayed dreams,

Bob Johnson

Everybody who used to go to the concerts felt betrayed when the series was canceled.

Vicente Fox

We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

And you haven’t been betrayed yet, Nick. You don’t know what that’s like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose)

Oprah Winfrey

I feel duped. But more importantly, I feel that you betrayed millions of readers.