Cheated Quote by Merle Shain

“The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.”

Merle Shain

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings)

More by Merle Shain

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Merle Shain

Image

Feelings take you into uncharted territory from time to time it's true, but you almost always benefit from the journey one way or the…

Merle Shain

Image

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Merle Shain

Image

Some men are more perfect than others.

Merle Shain

Image

Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they…

Merle Shain

Image

Anger is a passion, so it makes people feel alive and makes them feel they matter and are in charge of their lives. So people often need to renew their anger a long time after the cause of it has died, because it is a protection against helplessness and emptiness just like howling in the night. And it makes them…

Merle Shain

It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are…

Merle Shain

Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.

Merle Shain

Image

The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out far, and they are arteries that feed our lives, so we must see…

Merle Shain

Image

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

Merle Shain

Image

“ Whether the melon falls on the knife or the knife falls on the melon, it's the melon that suffers." And so it would…

Merle Shain

Image

when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.

Merle Shain

Image

Explore all 57 Merle Shain quotes

More Cheated quotes

I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm…

Rich Mullins

Image

I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the…

Matt Ridley

Image

“I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.”

Steven Ramirez

Image

It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same…

Carson McCullers

Image

We've all had someone break our hearts or have been fired from a job or have been cheated.

Greg Sestero

Image

I've never cheated. I've been cheated on.

Maura Higgins

Image

Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated.

Gore Vidal

Image

Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson...? The people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it… It is…

James Madison

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not…

Angelina Jolie

Image

“I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an eternal twilight…

Steven Ramirez

Image

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe