Quotes about betrayal
betrayal character elements feelings forward girl gone moves past
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.
betrayal shapes danger
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray. William Wordsworth
betrayal mean careers
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. Richard Russo
betrayal thinking sight
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. Salman Rushdie
betrayal rats betray
It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat. Winston Churchill
betrayal fall past
We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall. Robert Graves
betrayal stupid responsibility
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. Wendell Berry
betrayal sleep humanity
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. Vladimir Nabokov
betrayal community fraud help large level people process public sure
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.
betrayal forever breakfast
Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal. Milan Kundera
betrayal philosophy war
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts. Jacob Bronowski
betrayal giving police
No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust. Mahatma Gandhi
betrayal rome violence
Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny. Friedrich Durrenmatt
betrayal depth exhibitions
I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable. Enoch Powell
betrayal mean labour-movement
Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted. James Connolly
betrayal chaos underestimate
Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement. James Cook
betrayal abdication patriot
Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery. Olusegun Obasanjo
betrayal prejudice insult
A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. Emile M. Cioran
betrayal elected people
This is completely a betrayal of the people who elected this government.
betrayal government hour moments system
It was one of the most disgraceful moments for our system and our government that I can recall. It was an hour of shame...of betrayal of a child.
betrayal evidence
They are very disappointing. They are very disturbing, and it's evidence of a real betrayal -- a betrayal of the university, and significantly also a betrayal of those young people.
betrayal names people
Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately from my colleagues, who had contributed as much as and even more than I had, would have been a betrayal of them. Nelson Mandela
betrayal sacrifice people
The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Of course there are stories that are still relevant and inspiring; lessons that need to be taught over and over again. And they give people hope. Patti Smith
betrayal fall winning
She who resists as though she would not win, By her own treason falls an easy prey. Ovid
betrayal integrity perfect
There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal. Pat Conroy
betrayal people african-american
I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person. Much to the chagrin of a lot of African-American people that I meet, because it's almost like there's a betrayal, an intrinsic betrayal: "Don't do that, brotha, we need you. We need you here, in this fold." Keegan-Michael Key
betrayal silence neutrality
I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal. Martin Luther King, Jr.
betrayal writing thinking
It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have. Nadine Gordimer
betrayal abdication normal
Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities. R. D. Laing
betrayal faults bears
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own. Publilius Syrus
betrayal evil doubt
The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil Margaret Atwood
betrayal silence darkness
Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.
betrayal lying soul
I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul. Elia Kazan