Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Ernesto Zedillo

concealment and deceit .. and betrayal of the army.

John Ashcroft

Corrupt corporate executives are no better than common thieves when they betray employees and investors,

a stunning betrayal of their shields, their colleagues and the citizens they were sworn to protect.

This is a profoundly disappointing text and a betrayal of development promises by rich countries whose interests have prevailed yet again.

John Miller

This is a profoundly disappointing and sad day for human rights protections everywhere. With the stroke of a pen ... President Bush betrayed the untold tens of thousands of victims of the Indonesian military's brutality.

Bruce Schneier

It's a huge betrayal of the public trust, and they know it.

Bob Johnson

Everybody who used to go to the concerts felt betrayed when the series was canceled.

Nelson Mandela

We have failed to take HIV/AIDS seriously, ... That failure is a betrayal of our struggle for social justice and hope for our society.

Gore Vidal

Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

Ernst Toller

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work

It was Willey who betrayed Steele, and it was Ken Starr who betrayed the rule of law.

We feel very betrayed in regards to them taking our money and giving the administrators a raise.

We feel very betrayed in regards to à them taking our money and giving the administrators a raise.

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.

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.

Jay McInerney

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

James Hetfield

Deceit, Deceive, Decide just what you believe... I see faith in your eyes, Never you hear the discouraging lies. I hear faith in your cries... Broken is the promise, Betrayal... The healing hand held back by the deepened nail... Follow the god that failed.

Janeane Garofalo

This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy.

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.

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.

Ovid

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