Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Alexander

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

Amy Poehler

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

Robin Leach

If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.

Ada Leverson

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

Seth Shostak

It will be the mother of all telescopes, and you can bet it will do for astronomy what genome sequencing is doing for biology. The clumsy, if utilitarian, name of this mirrored monster is Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST. You can't use it yet, but a peak in the Chilean Andes has been decapitated to provide a level spot for placement.

Beth Brooke

Some companies are already investing in women and thereby betting on a brighter future - for a workforce just waiting to blossom, for emerging economies whose development depends on this new talent, and, of course, for their own financial growth.

Charles Thomas

We were all kind of taking side bets about if he was going to go (to the NBA) or not. We kind of figured that he was. When you have people in your ear, telling you you're in the first round, why not (leave)?

We demand the Israelis give Bethlehem freedom. If they won't do it then we won't have peace this Christmas.

We don't have T-shirts, yet, ... We're in the infancy stage. But you can bet we're working on it.

We won! We won! We won! Um, unfortunately, I bet on the other team - so we won't be going for pizza.

Steve Jobs

We didn't have anything to go on, ... It was our first film and you know there was sort of a betting pool around here as to how well it would do, and I would say the majority of folks thought it would be less successful than it was. I think we were stunned.

The proposal is an insult to all people who want to have democracy as early as possible. If we support the government, it would be a complete betrayal to our voters.

Trading volume is dwindling and we are probably not going to see large bets today and tomorrow, and especially after inconclusive economic data.

Toymakers are bringing back proven hits because it's less risky than betting on something new,

Maxwell Maltz

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.

Albert Camus

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

Daniel Inouye

A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.

Czeslaw Milosz

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

David Frum

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

David Cronenberg

See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin." --Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch

Curtis Armstrong

Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

Dalton Trumbo

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

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.

Alice Meynell

Red has been praised for its nobility of the color of life. But the true color of life is not red. Red is the color of violence, or of life broken open, edited, and published. Or if red is indeed the color of life, it is so only on condition that it is not seen. Once fully visible, red is the color of life violated, and in the act of betrayal and of waste.

Dag Hammarskjold

It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I--in complacent adjustment to alien demands.

Cormac McCarthy

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

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.

Amandla Stenberg

'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy fantasy in it, it's such a raw story, and I can really relate to the characters. I think it's a beautiful story.