Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vicente Fox

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

Stephen King

But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

Taylor Caldwell

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

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.

Siegfried Sassoon

And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.

Siegfried Sassoon

And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.

Sidney Poitier

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

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)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Beware the viper in your closet. Isn’t that another thing you’re always saying, Father? Ambition and jealousy are at the heart of all betrayals. (Ryssa)

Norman Jewison

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Max de Pree

From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

Lisa Kleypas

I realized I wasn't going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection and betrayal and heartbreak that came along with caring about someone. Someday, I promised myself, I would be ready for that kind of risk.

Martin Luther

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

Nick Cave

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

Marisha Pessl

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Let’s just say I understand betrayal. And having been where he is, I know the explosion to come. Trust me. ‘Duck’ won’t quite cover it. (Sin)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It’s never the enemy without who brings you down. It’s always the enemy within.” – Nick “Guard your back, Nick. It’s the one you don’t see coming. The one you trust whose betrayal is most lethal. They know your weakness and they know how to hit the lowest. It’s when your back is turned and your guard is down that they move in for the kill.” – Kyrian

Marianne Williamson

While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

Mason Cooley

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

Mary Alice

People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most underhanded forms of betrayal. It's a constant battle that rages within all of us, between the better angels of our nature and the temptations of our inner demons. And sometimes, the only way to ward off the darkness is to shine the light of compassion.

Oscar Wilde

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

Lucien Bouchard

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

Louis Farrakhan

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

Michel de Montaigne

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Make a bet every day; otherwise you might walk around lucky and never know it.

Jan C. Ting

Libertarian immigration policy would be an experiment in which I don't think we should participate. We should not bet the republic that the results will be good. I suspect the results would be a disaster and the end of the American experiment.

Obviously, people know more about the star players, so they have more opinions. People want to bet on players to succeed and on things to happen. It's a tendency we've seen over the years.

Right now, if I had to bet would the Democrats take the House and Senate back, I'd say no. But are the odds a heck of a lot better than they were three months ago or six months ago? Heck, yes.

Larry Noble

Right now, a number of members are betting on the public losing interest and getting away without any new reforms.