Treacherous Quotes - Page 6

• Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.

  Chris Abani

  Sibling, Successful, Artist

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• Look at the world and see what's there. It's very beautiful. It's a very exciting but in some ways treacherous world, and all this goes into the writing.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Beautiful, Writing, Looks

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.

  John Calvin

  Opportunity, Names, Disposition

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Psalms 93 - 119 (Annotated Edition)”, p.79, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Every great thing starts with an idea, followed by a doubt and finally a resolve to abandon or pursue. Victory is a treacherous journey.

  Dane Cook

  Journey, Ideas, Victory

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2014

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• Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gratitude, Trying, Doe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.105, Penguin

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• No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Path, Placement, Knows

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• We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Weakness

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• Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Water, Storm, Too Late

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• Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! Would you commit your promise to that, Smeagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are. It may twist your words. Beware!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Voice, Promise

  J.R.R. Tolkien (1973). “The Lord of the Rings part two the Two Towers”

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• In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.

  E. M. Forster

  Beautiful, Men, August

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• And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mistake, Flower, Past

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

  Amin Maalouf

  Writing, Taught, Seems

  Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.9, Arcade Publishing

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• A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Mother, Pain

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.36, GENERAL PRESS

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• In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Lying, Color, Perspective

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• Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart.

  Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

  Heart, Names, Ungrateful

  Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont “Beauty and the Beast—La Belle et la Bête English-French Parallel Text Edition”, Lulu.com

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• She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.

  Pat Conroy

  Age, Prison, Collectives

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.

  David Sheff

  Children, Parent, Moments

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• The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.

  Marisha Pessl

  Home, Views, World

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.280, Penguin

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• I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy.

  Yann Martel

  Clever, Self, Law

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fun, Fall, Feet

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Heart, Ears, Envious

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.8, University of Illinois Press

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• I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.

  Albert Einstein

  Reading, Writing, Looks

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.428, Princeton University Press

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• Its from the deep waters that we come.
  And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters.
  We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.

  Lisa Bonet

  Deep Water, Heartfelt, Devotion

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• You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

  Janet Morris

  God, Three, Done

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.16, Paradise Publishing

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• It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

  John von Neumann

  Selfish, Law, People

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