Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

George Carlin

Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Notwithstanding the trouble, notwithstanding the argument, notwithstanding the increasingly heavy hand of government, notwithstanding the spirit of arrogance we so often display, notwithstanding the growing tide of pornography and permissiveness, notwithstanding occasional corruption in public office and betrayal of sacred trust-I marvel at the miracle of America...

Elliot Robinson

If you think of public assistance, it is in some level a large bank. We need to have a process to make sure fraud does not occur, and some people think they can get away with it. It's such a betrayal of the people who want to help out the community as a whole.

Publilius Syrus

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

David Sedaris

The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.

Alexis de Tocqueville

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Kevin Kelly

Me missing the two field goals could have played a role in it. I had a job to do, whether it's a fake or a kick, so I had to get it done.

Fidel Castro

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

Christopher Moore

Gallery owners know me, but they never say, 'Hello,' because they don't want other people to know they know me, ... I have a little flag on my head saying, 'I'm the guy doing the fake things.'

Bill Cosby

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Jessica Chastain

I try not to fake anything.

George Harrison

Hippies are so phoney and fake.

Rich Lowry

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well.

Ozzy Osbourne

Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .

Christopher Hill

The issue is the tactics of how we express the elements of the document.

Karl Marx

Moments are the elements of profit

Margaret Atwood

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter...

Cristina Henriquez

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.

Vikas Swarup

All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.