Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Meltzer

I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.

Billy Campbell

Many who wave American flags also practice discrimination on the basis of race. Many who wave American flags practice anti-Semitism. We think that betrays the fundamental ideals of our democracy.

Edward Abbey

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

Albert Camus

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

Sigmund Freud

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Steven Pressfield

I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life bound me to them. I felt a sense of inexpressible relief and realized that I had feared, more than death, separation from them. I apprehended that excruciating war survivor's torment, the sense of isolation and self-betrayal experienced by those who had elected to cling yet to breath when their comrades had let loose their grip.

Sue Monk Kidd

Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.

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)

Theodore Roosevelt

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

Rene Preval

During the electoral campaign I felt the enthusiasm. This is my third campaign, my second running for president, and this was the most enthusiastic.

Richard Engel

The Muslim Brotherhood, or 'the Brotherhood' for short, is an Islamic group founded in Egypt in 1928. It has been pursuing a secret campaign to take over the government since its creation.

Ali Behnam

These data show that there's a lot of value to branding. A lot of times when you're trying to promote your product, you may not see immediate results, but in the customer's mind, that campaign may be contributing to some of these bookmark conversion rates later on.

Paul Dergarabedian

The very strong marketing campaign will produce some strong numbers this weekend.

Michael Cornfield

This is an opportunity for citizens to have an impact on campaign practices next year and beyond. We want to learn what people want to look at and what they regard as true or misleading in what they see.

Larry Makinson

There are two ways of looking at campaign finance,

Al Franken

What you see on the campaign trail is me. It's easy being me.

Tad Devine

We want a debate and a campaign about the issues,

Roger Williams

The Public Health Minister who should have done her homework instead defended industry. But critical mass has been reached and many other campaigns have been initiated to eliminate aspartame.

Saad Qindeel

Any comments regarding the contents of the constitution from a non-Iraqi source are not going to be helpful.

Scott Reed

Romney?s comments have not gone unnoticed, and his visit to Phoenix to raise some money has raised some eyebrows.

Tom Vosa

These comments have reduced expectations that we will see any hint of a pause in tightening in Greenspan's testimony on Wednesday.

Mahmoud Alinejad

These comments are not being made by accident. This is something he has deliberated and thought out.

Todd Akin

This is not about who is running the media, this is about the question of the shock jocks who have been pushing the moral envelope for all too long and the vulgar and indecent comments that come over the public airwaves.

Katherine MacMurray

This game we tried to focus on positive comments to help our players and that helped win the game.

Joseph Cirincione

You no longer heard comments about tyrants and pygmies. It may seem to be a small matter, but it's very important diplomatically.

Stanton Glantz

entirely free to publish his review without including our comments and without restriction.

David Rakoff

I value kindness in myself and others. I try to remain super-vigilant about my targets and make extra sure that my sometimes barbed comments are deserved and in response to genuine malefaction.

Pat Doyle

The movie was outstanding, very compelling and very well done.

David Treadwell

The most important thing for Windows is being compelling to developers. Developers are the linchpin for the success of Windows.

Marjory LeBreton

There would have to be a compelling reason.

Andrew Neff

While the stock could remain under pressure near term, we maintain our 'buy' rating on IBM owing to a compelling second-half story.

Adam Rayner

Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of way. For the actors, we have to try and make these stories as truthful and compelling as possible.

Chris Hill

So it's very difficult for them. But there are compelling reasons for them to come to the talks. The settlement on offer is a good one and I'd hope they would see their way to doing that.

Robert Wilson

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

William Daley

I don't think you play it safe. I think you try to be very natural and lay out in a forward way the compelling reasons for the election going your way,

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Brenda Blethyn

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled

Edward Norton

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Edward Snowden

You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

Brian Ferneyhough

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Andre Leon Talley

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

Anthony Hopkins

Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.

Alicia Silverstone

All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.