"Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more……" — Justina Chen
"Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?"
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51 Quotes by Justina Chen
Justina Chen has 51 quotes on this site.
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You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.
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Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken,…
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Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.
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To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.
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That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.
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Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you…
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Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.
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Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?
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I just told Max flatly, "I had laser surgery last week to lighten my birthmark," as if it was no…
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Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled…
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Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do…
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Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.
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More Betray Quotes
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one of 545 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism…
— Walter Benjamin
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he…
— Edmund Burke
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I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
— Taylor Caldwell
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
— John le Carre
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I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you…
— Jimmy Carter
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
— Noam Chomsky
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Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they…
— Unknown Author
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By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
— Huineng
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