Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Cave

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

Ovid

She who resists as though she would not win, By her own treason falls an easy prey.

Pat Burrell

In Philly when it's good, there is no better place.

Pat Conroy

There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.

Joe Sakic

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

Jodi Picoult

Betrayal was a stone beneath a mattress of thr bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

Patti Smith

The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Of course there are stories that are still relevant and inspiring; lessons that need to be taught over and over again. And they give people hope.

Mark Twain

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

Oscar Wilde

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

Lucien Bouchard

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

Louis Farrakhan

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

Michel de Montaigne

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today... ...some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak.

Ned Colletti

The more experienced you are, the better off you are.

Nathan Parsons

Whether you're a vampire or werewolf, love is still love. Betrayal is still betrayal.

Nathan Parsons

I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

Nadine Gordimer

It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

R. D. Laing

Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.

Publilius Syrus

Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

Publilius Syrus

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

Publilius Syrus

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

Publilius Syrus

When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

Nelson Mandela

Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately from my colleagues, who had contributed as much as and even more than I had, would have been a betrayal of them.

Kresley Cole

Those who betray me only do so once.

Oprah Winfrey

My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals - I remained faithful, hopeful, and open to seeing the best in people, regardless of whether they were showing me their worst. I stayed open to believing that no matter how hard the climb, there is always a way to let in a sliver of light to illuminate the path forward.

Margaret Atwood

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil

Margaret Atwood

Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.

Pablo Picasso

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us...

J. K. Rowling

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!

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."