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• Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Time, Betrayal

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• Yes, definitely I do feel betrayed, but I've got to take everything that's happened and learn from it. I accept that that's a chapter of my life that's finished. And I've just got to be grateful that I've got so many good things going on. I have.

  Cheryl Cole

  Grateful, Divorce, Good Things

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• In its essence the Gospel is a call to make the experiment of comradeship, the experiment of fellowship, the experiment of trusting the heart of things, throwing self-care to the winds, in the sure and certain faith that you will not be deserted, forsaken nor betrayed, and that your ultimate interests are perfectly secure in the hands of the Great Companion. This insight is the center, the kernel, the growing point of the Christian religion, which, when we have it, all else is secure, and when we have it not, all else is precarious.

  L. P. Jacks

  Christian, Heart, Wind

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• Action is transitory, a step, a blow,
  The motion of a muscle, this way or that,
  'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy,
  We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

  William Wordsworth

  Betrayal, Blow, Men

  'The Borderers' (1842) act 3, l. 1539

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• The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.

  Cyril Connolly

  Running, Taken, Air

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.107, University of Chicago Press

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• The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

  Al Gore

  Administration, Hunger, American Values

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• There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

  Maureen Howard

  Betrayal, Men, Odor

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• When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to paint, or what there might be to paint: so wretched a start could lead to nothing meaningful. As time went on, however, I observed differences of quality among the grey surfaces - and also that these betrayed nothing of the destructive motivation that lay behind them. The pictures began to teach me. By generalizing a personal dilemma, they resolved it.

  Gerhard Richter

  Meaningful, Art, Motivation

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Jun 30, 2015

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• To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.

  John Barth

  Betrayal, Writing, Men

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• Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Religious, Religion, Trying

  Song: Possession

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• The Jews form a state, and, obeying their own laws, they evade those of their host country. the Jews always considered an oath regarding a Christian not binding. During the Campaign of 1812 the Jews were spies, they were paid by both sides, they betrayed both sides. It is seldom that the police investigate a robbery in which a Jew is not found either to be an accomplice or a receiver.

  Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

  Christian, Country, Law

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• History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.

  Michael Moritz

  Passion, Reform, Voters

  "Ending Piggybank Politics: Checkbook Balancing in San Francisco" by Michael Moritz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2011.

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• Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

  Seneca the Younger

  Anger, Two, Sun

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• The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Men, World, Decent

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• Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Deception, Too Late, May

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• All the money was spent for the 'Concept Plan' document, which made reasonable recommendations for developments. Now that's kind of being forgotten. That's why I think the public trust is being betrayed.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Betrayal, Thinking, Development

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• An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

  Max Planck

  Success, Failure, Science

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• In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

  George William Russell

  Hero, Childhood, Sorrow

  'Germinal' (1931)

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• As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a love disorder of one sort or another, and each has a story to tell - of love lost or denied, love twisted or betrayed, love perverted or shackled to violence. Broken attachments litter the office floors like pick-up sticks. People appear with frayed seams and spilling pockets.

  Diane Ackerman

  Lost Love, Attachment, People

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.136, Vintage

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• When you feel betrayed by someone that you trust the most... As an actor, you look for something that's going to let you express some of your inner emotions and anger.

  Terrence Howard

  Looks, Actors, Emotion

  "Find Out What the Hell Happened to Terrence Howard". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. March 6, 2013.

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• People who think they can just do a non-stop flight to mystical, non-dual thinking, to get it out without going through the process, are usually not right. That's airy-fairy thinking. They have to wait until they are hurt themselves, or they are cheated, or lied to or betrayed, and they will see that their non-dual thinking is not tested, or truly a gift of the spirit. It's simply fuzzy thinking.

  Richard Rohr

  Hurt, Thinking, Gifts Of The Spirit

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.

  Storm Jameson

  Running, Illness, Habit

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• We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

  Janice Mirikitani

  War, Believe, Yellow

  Janice Mirikitani (1995). “We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems”, Ten Speed Press

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• I have yet to meet a person who has not felt betrayed.

  Caroline Myss

  Persons, Felt

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• Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbowroom enough, that by suretyship have expired in a dungeon.

  Frances Osborne

  Father, Liberty, Ordinary

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