Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Fernando Pessoa

To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)

Catharine MacKinnon

It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.

Christine Feehan

There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?

Christine Feehan

Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.

If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

Jeanette Winterson

One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the beginning of a relationship. It’s not a word people use very often, which confuses me, because there are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, and then being on somebody else’s.

Jeanette Winterson

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

Jean Renoir

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

Erica Jong

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

Jay Asher

Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.

Jack Kornfield

To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

Bill Cosby

Betrayal, abandonment, deceit and manipulation.

James Hetfield

Deceit, Deceive, Decide just what you believe... I see faith in your eyes, Never you hear the discouraging lies. I hear faith in your cries... Broken is the promise, Betrayal... The healing hand held back by the deepened nail... Follow the god that failed.

Janeane Garofalo

This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy.

Esther Williams

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

Ernest Becker

Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self effacement, surrender to the "others", disavowal of any personal dignity and freedom-on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces.

Fulton J. Sheen

It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

Chris Marker

I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

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...

Henry David Thoreau

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Henry David Thoreau

Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

Jean Genet

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Jean Genet

Anyone who's never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn't know what pleasure is.

Jean Rhys

And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

Grover Norquist

No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file.

Greil Marcus

I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio.

Greil Marcus

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Hugh Prather

I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

Gillian Flynn

I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

Frank Herbert

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.