Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chang-Rae Lee

There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.

Charles Hazlewood

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

Bill Vaughan

All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.

Damon Lindelof

At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.

Coco Chanel

For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.

Elia Kazan

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.

Blaise Pascal

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

Bob Wright

When you put your investment in content - which is what we have done and will continue to do - you're not betting on any one technology. You're betting on them all.

The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus.

Charles Palliser

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

Charles Peguy

One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.

Alfre Woodard

I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season.

Nate Torrence

People weren't willing to bet on 'The Commercial Guy' when they were casting movies and television in the beginning, but I stuck around, and now it's slowly starting to pay off.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

The history of Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be understood without its underlying emotional meanders. The emotional frameworks of the loss of Palestine for the Arab-Islamic world touched deep scars that go back to the Crusades, symbolizing a proof of Arab-Islamic decay, political impotence, and perceived (British/French) betrayal and antagonism.

Graham Thorpe

What this case is about is a betrayal of trust.

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

When we entered the market, we bet on sophisticated technology to solve the complexity of the search marketplace, and we bet right. The marketplace continues to get more and more complex, and we are the only firm with the technology to scale to the needs of marketers.

Chris Wilcox

We'll see what the bet is for the next game. I tried to get 19 ... I was a little shy.

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.

She's a great player. In the second half she was trying to take it over. We had (Tanisha) Wright on her for a while and Betty doubled on her pretty well.

Mike Hurley has betrayed his union brothers and sisters. Mike now has to live with the fact that his co-workers will forever view him as a scab.

Mrs. Betty Ford remained in Eisenhower Medical Center overnight following tests late on Thursday afternoon. She has returned home and will resume a normal schedule.

Edward Abbey

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

Ben Horowitz

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup...

Elizabeth Bowen

One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.

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.

Senators are betting that pandering to the public with billions in election-year promises will pay off more than they lose by cutting the fiscal conservatives in their own party off at the knees.

Sentiment on exporter shares will take a hit because of the stronger won. Investors will probably wait until making further bets on exporters and focus on domestic-demand related stocks.

Ed Harris

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else

bell hooks

Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem.

bell hooks

While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping a secret" until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust.

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.