Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Bester

no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There‟s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

Amy Tan

And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope?

Amy Tan

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

Andre Breton

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

Anita Shreve

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

Christopher Paolini

Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?" (Orik) (Eldest) (Page 207)

Anne Bronte

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.

Anita Brookner

You can never betray the people who are dead.

Ambrose Bierce

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Amy Poehler

When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.

You can bet there will be a whole host of charges.

You can bet anything less than an impeccable voting record would be an issue in the November election.

Monica Lewinsky

you can always say you were coming to see Betty or bringing me papers.

Windows Live is our strategic bet to change the game and win.

Kieron Dyer

When I think about it, I feel like I betrayed Bobby Robson. That's the worst thing about it.

We are blazing some exciting trails for 2006 and beyond, and you can bet the ranch on it.

We are betting the bank, building our future on convergence,

We'd pay more, within reason. If we had to pay US$5 more a month per device, on top of the current $50 per month, nobody would scream. And I bet if the monthly fee went up another $30, some users might pay it.

We've gone through a lot this week in terms of getting ready for the Fed, ... We've got some important news at 2:00 on Tuesday and obviously you're not going to make a huge bet in front of that. However, we seem to be in good shape for that announcement.

What you have is illegal student bookies on every major college campus in this country taking illegal bets from students on those campuses on NCAA sanctioned events,

Lesley Nicol

I met Bette Midler, who I absolutely love.

We'd gotten a little oversold in the last few days and so we're coming back a little now, with people making some cautious bets on a few individual issues.

Lynda Resnick

I can taste a meal and tell you every spice that's in there. I have taste buds like Betty Grable's legs - they should be insured with Lloyd's of London.

Sarah Steele

I'll shout out to James L. Brooks. 'Terms of Endearment' always makes me cry. Also, 'Stepmom' always makes me cry. I guess, you know, mothers dying. It's a safe bet that I'm going to cry.

The popularity of BET especially with the minority community probably had an effect on mainstream networks. Not only did you see them focus on sitcoms with black characters, but you would also see shows that had an all-black cast.

Billy Campbell

Many who wave American flags also practice discrimination on the basis of race. Many who wave American flags practice anti-Semitism. We think that betrays the fundamental ideals of our democracy.

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them- we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed, and rare.

Barry Goldwater

I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December 7, 1941 was a "day of infamy" then December 15, 1978 ranks right up there in international betrayal...The pathetic thing about this whole mess, however, is that it is typical of this administration's conduct of foreign affairs, which could be kindly described as being riddled by ineptitude and hypocrisy.

Elie Wiesel

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

Bernhard Schlink

I know that disavowal is an unusal form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply exercising discretion, being considerate, avoiding embarrassments and sources of irritation. But you, who are doing the disowning, you know what you're doing. And disavowal pulls the underpinnings away from a relationship just as surely as other more flamboyant types of betrayal.

Edmond de Goncourt

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

August Wilson

I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time.

August Wilson

I think the play offers (white Americans) a different way to look at black Americans For instance, in 'Fences' they see a garbageman, a person they don't really look at, although they see a garbageman every day. By looking at Troy's life, white people find out that the content of this black garbageman's life is affected by the same things- love, honor, beauty, betrayal, duty. Recognizing that these things are as much part of his life as theirs can affect how they think about and deal with black people in their lives.