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Tag Name "Betray" (390)

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Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the Emancipation Proclamation. But they know that to be a Benedict Arnold is to be a traitor of the deepest dye - someone who coldly betrays not only a sacred cause but every moral scruple along the way.
Arthur L. Herman
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To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
Kim Campbell
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For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
Suzanne Collins
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Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.
Sam Kean
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or of death deter them from asserting the liberty of their country, and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born
George Mason
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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Germaine Greer
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If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.
Terry Brooks
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Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Henry David Thoreau
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No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.
Anne Truitt
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The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
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Anyone who promises that everything can be made the way it used to be with the recipes of the past betrays in reality the people he claims to represent. We must never participate in this betrayal and we must never allow this betrayal.
Matthias Platzeck
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If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs then I want the woman I love to mistreat me, betray me, and the more cruelly the better. That too is a pleasure.
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.
Maria Montessori
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Michel de Montaigne
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
Arthur Ashe
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I see a girl, soon to be a woman, Tibb continues. The girl who will share your life. She will love you, she will betray you, and finally she will die for you. And it will all have been for nothing. All for nothing in the end.
Joseph Delaney
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
Livy
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Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.
Lauren Conrad
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weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.
Jon Krakauer
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Could we betray our parents by going back to them?
Karen Russell
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Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.
Robert Cormier
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e foundation to a good friendship is trust but the foundation to good comedy is by betraying your friends.
Daniel Tosh
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