Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

Nick Cave

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

Siegfried Sassoon

And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.

Siegfried Sassoon

And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.

Sidney Poitier

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

Sidney Poitier

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

Tom Cochrane

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Theodore Roosevelt

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

Marisha Pessl

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

Matthias Platzeck

Anyone who promises that everything can be made the way it used to be with the recipes of the past betrays in reality the people he claims to represent. We must never participate in this betrayal and we must never allow this betrayal.

Max de Pree

From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

John Wooden

You are no better than anyone else and no one is better than you.

Norman Jewison

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

Norman Finkelstein

I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parents' legacy.

Marianne Williamson

While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

Mason Cooley

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

Mary Alice

People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most underhanded forms of betrayal. It's a constant battle that rages within all of us, between the better angels of our nature and the temptations of our inner demons. And sometimes, the only way to ward off the darkness is to shine the light of compassion.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

And you haven’t been betrayed yet, Nick. You don’t know what that’s like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Believe me, I know and I almost made the same mistake you did. Evil is seductive. It’s what makes the two of them so dangerous. (Jericho) No. It’s our willingness to believe their lies and to see what we want to see that makes it so dangerous. Even when we know better, we lie to ourselves and that’s where the true betrayal is. (Jared)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Beware the viper in your closet. Isn’t that another thing you’re always saying, Father? Ambition and jealousy are at the heart of all betrayals. (Ryssa)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Let’s just say I understand betrayal. And having been where he is, I know the explosion to come. Trust me. ‘Duck’ won’t quite cover it. (Sin)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It’s never the enemy without who brings you down. It’s always the enemy within.” – Nick “Guard your back, Nick. It’s the one you don’t see coming. The one you trust whose betrayal is most lethal. They know your weakness and they know how to hit the lowest. It’s when your back is turned and your guard is down that they move in for the kill.” – Kyrian

Josh Fox

The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.

Keegan-Michael Key

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."

Dan is going to be very competitive this year. I bet we'll have 22 to 24 cars this year (in Pure Stocks). It's going to be a great year. We have five new guys coming in who will be good.

The next England Manager betting has been very quiet in the last few days, as punters waited for a possible announcement from Newcastle but whatever way you look at it, it's clear that O'Neill is top of everyone's shopping list.

The odds of winning the grand prize are less than one in 146 million, but it's a sure bet that if you do win a big jackpot, you're going to also have a big tax bill, with more than one-third of your winnings going to the IRS.

Everybody bets on March Madness. It's one of the biggest betting events of the year, but more and more people are starting to bet on the conference tournaments. There is just so much on the line in these tournaments and the passion runs deep - it's a great lead-in to March Madness.

Take away those plays and I bet we dominated them in every single offensive category. We played a lot better tonight. The kids played really hard but it's a shame we didn't get the win.

It's simply a matter of whether or not they'll be in the hunt for the championship. And there's a chance they won't be, but you can bet the farm they'll be favorites to win every race in the Chase.

Blair Underwood

It's not a safe bet and it's not the cookie-cutter formula,

Everyone in the world is picking Reese Witherspoon but me. I'm betting on the last-movie-seen theory. When there are upsets at the Oscars, they tend to be obscure movies that were probably the last DVD screener on the Academy's stack.

Sebastian Thrun

Everyone has to place a bet down on speed.