You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs,… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“This is the times of betrays and traitors, they even betray themselves, their limit is the Sky HMS Ogiel” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.” — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“Do you know what love is? I’ll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.” THE LOOKING GLASS WAR, JOHN LE… — Brittany Cavallaro Copy Share Image
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Fear your friends. Beware of your close friends. Be alert to whom you cast your trust. Because not all of them will… — Nathaniel E. Quimada Copy Share Image
We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“You don't stop loving someone just because they hurt you. It would certainly make things easier if you did.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Alas! For shame," said Sir Launcelot, "that ever one knight should betray another! But it is an old saw, a good man… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. — Charles De Gaulle Copy Share Image
The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The overdressed traveller betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveller knows that the novel world about… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“To make plans and not make good use of them is like “betraying your success helpmate” after getting to know him. Make… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
“I would not betray this family. I am a warrior; if I were to cross your rule, I would face you head-on,… — Tillie Cole Copy Share Image
“You conquered me, got to this Special Forces bloke well and truly." His voice husky and low. "You could betray and kill… — Marquesate Copy Share Image
God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of the cross when I walk out onto the… — Diego Maradona Copy Share Image
