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.

Robert Vega

He didn't want to go home. From what we know, he spent the past two nights sleeping in the woods.

Paul Stephenson

I think we were the better side on the night.

Wayne Gretzky

I will say it one more time, I said it the other night, I didn't bet, it didn't happen, it's not going to happen, it hasn't happened, it's not something that I've done.

Maria Hernandez

He's going to come out that gate, and I'm going to be here awaiting him. We are here day and night because we have hope.

David Dinkins

I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?

Johnny Depp

He had watched the film for the first time that night and said it was brilliant.

Steve Peck

He does that night in and night out, he makes the big save.

Robert Cormier

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

Richard O'Brien

It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.

Richelle Mead

You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're even still alive.

William Goldman

You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.

Scott Turow

You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo, and saying, 'No mother would want that for her child, no matter how great the artist.' I have my share of demons, but I am a gregarious sort.

Ellen G. White

The Saviour would have passed through the agony of Calvary that one might be saved in His kingdom. He will never abandon one for whom He has died.

Frank Keating

The agony that we went through needed to be redeemed, and needed to be recompensed, and that did occur and we're very happy that this part is over.

Louis Agassiz

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

Francois Truffaut

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

Maggie Stiefvater

Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.

Emily Dickinson

Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.