Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

Anne Bronte

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.

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.

Dalton Trumbo

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

Deepak Chopra

Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.

Anthony Minghella

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.

Alfred Bester

no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There‟s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

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.

It betrayed the public's trust over nuclear energy,

His past and his feelings for the girl he's into are really important elements of the character. There's also the betrayal that he's gone through, and how he moves forward from that.

There is no greater betrayal than that of the public trust, and these defendants violated that trust.

He's betrayed his family; he's betrayed the people he ? everybody he's ever dealt with his whole life.

He would never betray his country or compromise its national security.

He is distressed. He's saddened that people he had worked with and trusted turned out to be doing things they shouldn't have done . . . I haven't heard him use the word betrayed but he's very, very disappointed.

Mark Bowden

He essentially betrayed many of those people who had relied on him.

For me, this is a very serious and very egregious allegation. To betray the trust of the public at large, betray the trust of the county, co-workers and, most important, the customers. These are very, very serious allegations.

Bryan Fuller

With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.

Edwin Muir

We have seen / Good men made evil wrangling with the evil, / Straight minds grown crooked fighting crooked minds. / Our peace betrayed us; we betrayed our peace. / Look at it well. This was the good town once.

Paul Simon

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

This reluctance to press Nigeria to hand over Taylor fosters a double standard that betrays the people of Sierra Leone,

Bill Cosby

Betrayal, abandonment, deceit and manipulation.

I think he's betrayed the state. If his mission is to take care of the people, and generate business and income for the state, he's gone about it the wrong way.

I thought he was my friend, but he betrayed me. If someone points a gun at you and shoots and it doesn't go off, what would you do? If someone is pointing a gun at you and they start putting more bullets into the gun, what would you do?

Oprah Winfrey

It is difficult for me to talk to you because I really feel duped. More importantly, I feel you betrayed millions of readers ... As I sit here today, I don't know what is true, and I don't know what isn't.

Debbie Ford

Releasing the invisible ties to those who have left you, betrayed you, disappointed you or hurt you, you open up to higher realms of love, peace and joy.