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.

Ursula K. Le Guin

If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

Robert Stephens

The family of Dane Heggem has been betrayed.

Robert Sternberg

You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.

Robin McKinley

Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.

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,

William Boetcker

Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices, and your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others.

Cao Cao

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

Charles Palliser

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

Elizabeth Bowen

One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.

John Lennon

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

David Miliband

Everything about my politics has been about the future

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.

Ben Vereen

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free

Dean Koontz

What has been is no more. Change has come.

Artie Shaw

Any more would have been less.

Alexander McCall Smith

Everything has been something before.