Betrays Quotes

122 quotes by 110 authors

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… — Matthias Platzeck
There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are… — Bernard Cornwell
A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of the things of the earth - beware! - is not the true… — Oscar Romero
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. — Theodor Adorno
There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but there are very… — Pierre Klossowski
An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence… — Harriet Lerner
One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse… — Elizabeth Bowen
Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us. — Sam Tanenhaus
Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of… — Novalis
Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human… — Armstrong Williams
He who trusts the world, the world betrays him. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Of course the welfare of our children is a legitimate state interest. However, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples fails to further this interest. Instead, needlessly… — Arenda L. Wright Allen
Betrayal betrays the betrayer. — Erica Jong
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this — Steve Albini
The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us. — Erwin McManus
America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy. — Ahmed Chalabi
The idea that 'preaching the Gospel' has nothing to do with sex and that 'preaching about sex' has nothing to do with the Gospel betrays… — Christopher West
While it is true that the taking of life not yet born or in it's final stages is sometimes marked by a mistaken sense of… — Pope John Paul II
Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity. — Walter Raleigh
More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when… — John Thorn

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