Cheated Quotes - Page 7

• The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, People, Expectations

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• I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

  David Mamet

  Employers, Wells, Knows

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• Love and I once had a great relationship, but I fear we've broken up. It cheated on me, wrecked my heart, and then went on to date other people. A lot of other people. And I can't stand to watch it, since love's going to cheat on them too.

  David Levithan

  Heart, People, Broken

  David Levithan (2015). “Marly's Ghost”, p.9, Egmont UK

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• Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Hate, Feet, People

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.25, Vintage

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• The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Struggle, Patriotic

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• I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?

  Richard Russo

  Regret, Father, Feelings

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• Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? " 

  Nora Ephron

  Book, Mean, Writing

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Aug 28, 2016

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• When we work so hard at our preparations for Christmas, we often feel cheated and frustrated when others fail to notice the results of our efforts. We need to ask ourselves why we are doing the things we choose to do. If love motivates us-love for our families, for our neighbors - then we are free to simply enjoy the actual process of what we do, rather than requiring the approval and admiration of others for the results of our labors.

  Ellyn Sanna

  Christmas, Effort, Frustrated

  Ellyn Sanna, Barbour Bargain Books (2002). “May the Peace of Christ Be Yours This Season”, Barbour Publishing

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• Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Inspirational, Success, Secret

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• I was unfaithful, I had affairs, I cheated.

  Tiger Woods

  Unfaithful, Affair, I Cheated

  "Tiger contrite over his affairs". "AM" with Craig McMurtrie, www.abc.net.au. February 20, 2010.

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• Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• If others don't use their gifts, you get cheated, and if you don;t use your gifts, they get cheated.

  Rick Warren

  Use, Ifs

  Rick Warren (2015). “The Purpose Driven Life Devotional for Kids”, p.275, Zonderkidz

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• I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.

  Bill Shankly

  Wife, Legs, Cheat

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• If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Giving, Treasure

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.196, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Team, Games

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• I vowed I wouldn't ever let anyone destroy me again. I was going to work at it every day, so hard that I would be the toughest guy in the world. By the end of practice, I wanted to be physically tired, to know that I'd been through a workout. If I wasn't tired, I must have cheated somehow, so I stayed a little longer.

  Dan Gable

  Workout, Tired, Practice

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• Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, Wat ye how she cheated me, As I came o'er the braes of Balloch?

  Anne Grant

  Cheating, Wife

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• At SGI board meetings... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.

  Michael Lewis

  Entrepreneur, Boards, Red

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• Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn your mistakes and learn your lessons. Remain strong with your head held high.

  Angela Merkel

  Strong, Mistake, Women

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• He's the one guy I can credit for making me think about marriage in a whole new light, because every guy I've had in my life has either lied or cheated me financially or business-wise, or taken advantaged of me.

  Christina Aguilera

  Wise, Business, Taken

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• I used to play golf with a guy who cheated so badly that he once had a hole in one and wrote down zero on the scorecard.

  Bob Bruce

  Zero, Golf, Play

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• Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated.

  Martha Whitmore Hickman

  Grief, Grieving, Reassuring

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• If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an immense delusion; half the human race has been cheated and deceived, and churches are monuments of folly. If the Bible is the Word of God and inspired, all who refuse to believe it are in fearful danger; they are living on the brink of eternal misery. No man, in his sober senses, can fail to see that the whole subject demands most serious attention.

  J. C. Ryle

  Believe, Men, Race

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [If a president is successful in bypassing the Congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Successful, Blessing

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• I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!

  Joseph Joubert

  Mean, Men, Coins

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