Betrayed Quotes - Page 8

• Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego's will to prevail. To listen to the soul is to stop fighting with life-to stop fighting when things fall apart, when they don't go our way, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty, and to wait.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Fall, Fighting, Life And Death

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• The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love Life, Vanity, Intellectual

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1940). “The wave of the future: a confession of faith”

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• I did a lot of research on villains, and guys who start behaving nefariously didn't start out as bad people. My research indicates that all of these people were scorned and hurt by love. Darth Vader didn't start off as a bad guy. He was a good guy. Only when Natalie Portman betrayed him, did he go to the dark side.

  Shawn Hatosy

  Hurt, Dark, People

  Source: collider.com

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• In life the turn coat (traitor) is never trustworthy by either side. The one that he betrayed will hate him and the other that benefited from his treachery will fear him. After all what is going to stop the "turn coat" from betraying him as well.

  Artur Pawlowski

  Hate, Coats, Sides

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• Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.

  John F. Kerry

  Leadership, Country, Home

  "Edward Snowden's interview: 10 things we learned" by Catherine E. Shoichet, www.cnn.com. May 29, 2014.

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• The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

  Jack Kornfield

  Beach, Hatred, Suffering

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• In selling his scheme, Obama has been promoting the myth that our system is no better than those of other advanced nations. His recent statements have betrayed his openly contemptuous attitude toward American health care and out top-flight medical profession. His attitude is consistent with his revealed general attitude about America, which he denigrates every time he gets a chance, especially on foreign soil.

  David Limbaugh

  Attitude, America, Care

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• I feel sick and disempowered, betrayed, angry and crushed by the corruption of all that I know is right.

  Chris Packham

  Sick, Corruption, Crushed

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• No-one is ever betrayed by true love.

  Jaufre Rudel

  Love, Short Love

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• Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.

  John Piper

  Darkness, Hours, Abandoned

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• Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously betrayed, or wantonly trifled away, the people have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed, and to constitute abler and better agents, attorneys, and trustees.

  John Adams

  People, Agents, Causes

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.13, Hackett Publishing

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• We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Party, Faces, Facts

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.32, Beacon Press

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• When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.

  Stendhal

  Running, Women, Two

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.80, World Classic

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• It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Dog, Cat, Eye

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21”, p.65, VM eBooks

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• A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.

  Daniel Inouye

  Principles, Made, Hostage

  1987 Of the Iran-Contra scandal. In the NewYork Times, 24 Jul.

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• I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

  Ronald Reagan

  Hero, Records, Fine

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• (George Bush) betrayed this country! He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place!

  Al Gore

  Country, Adventure, America

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• Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage in denying the right of citizens to vote. Their actions serve
  only to assure that their State governments and local governments shall be remote from the people, least representative of the people's will and least responsive to the people's wishes.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Government, People, Wish

  Special Message to the Congress on the Right To Vote, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. March 15, 1965.

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• Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Men, Self

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• Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when it comes to Islam.

  Wafa Sultan

  Intellectual, Islam, Calling

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Deception, Promise, Wicked

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• The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things he doesn't want you to do and you'll burn for a long time if you do them - and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a species. That's the source of my indignations, my dissatisfactions, however it comes out on the stage. I feel betrayed by the people I'm part of, these creatures, these magnificent creatures.

  George Carlin

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

  Las Vegas CityLife, August 09, 2007.

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• When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.

  Amy Poehler

  Shame, Periods

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• If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.

  William Dean Howells

  Ifs, Presses

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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, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions")

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Sleep, Dragons

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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