Best Betrayed Wisdom
392 Betrayed quotes by 328 unique authors
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who…
— Elie Wiesel
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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
— Elie Wiesel
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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
— William Wordsworth
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If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the…
— Tony Blair
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She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You…
— Louise Erdrich
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We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to…
— James A. Baldwin
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I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or…
— Joan Didion
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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden,…
— Neil Gaiman
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If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This…
— Khaled Hosseini
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The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of thought…
— Cesare Pavese
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States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights…
— Robert Kennedy
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your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench…
— Charles Bukowski
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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
— Alice Hoffman
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Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine
— Baroness Orczy
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Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we…
— Graham Greene
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Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are…
— Michel Foucault
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We are betrayed by what is false within
— George Meredith
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Then I saw it, and it just grabbed me. That moment, that breath just before destiny, between innocence and power. He'll pull the sword free.…
— Nora Roberts
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Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed
— Jay McInerney
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It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only…
— Jacqueline Carey
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He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was…
— Khaled Hosseini
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In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned…
— Ian Mcewan
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