Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Carol Oates

Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

Han Suyin

with some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal ...

Gilbert K. Chesterton

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

John Dryden

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

Liz Smith

You know, I've known most of these people either well or slightly. And I think they're pretty terrific. I, even I had good experiences with Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, who were, you know, talk about divas. They were divas.

Brian Vickers

You come down to the last couple of laps, and teammates or not, all bets are off. He learned what he had to do, obviously, because those guys still respect him out there and they're still pushing him to wins.

You can watch 130 different horse tracks, live, betting on them around the world on the Internet. There's a huge amount, whether it's horse racing or blackjack or Texas Hold 'Em, whatever you want to do. It's not just my fantasy land.

Rafael Palmeiro

You can pretty much bet that deal's going to be made.

You can over-hype a movie, but I don't think you can over-hype Harry Potter. I think this movie is so highly anticipated it deserves hype ... I think it behooves Warner Bros. to get the word out any way they can because they've got to bet big in the marketing to win big at the box office.

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.

I'm not really a gambler, but I know if you go to Vegas and bet five numbers instead of one that your odds are better of winning. His odds are certainly better than anybody's right now.

Jaromir Jagr

I'm going to do everything I can to be back and help this team. We've got a day to figure out something. I'll do anything to play. You can bet on it.

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.

Roughly 40 percent of our business comes from south of Colorado Springs. Logic would tell you that it is probably a pretty good bet that we are concerned about the proposal.

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.

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.

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?

Kresley Cole

Those who betray me only do so once.