If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache. . . . If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.
You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.
I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers. And it's appropriate, because the writer is getting paid and the reader isn't.
ONE MORE CHNCE. Words that my mother heard, more than once. Words that women debate. Whether you CAN forgive and whether you SHOULD trust. I think of all the judgment from society, friends, and family, the overwhelming consensus seeming to be that you should not grant someone who betrayed you a second chance. That you should do everything you can to keep the knife out of your back, and to protect your heart and pride. Cowards give second chances. Fools give second chances. And I am no coward, no fool.
If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.
Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.
Elednor,' he said, 'Elednor, why have you betrayed me? Come back to me. Come back to were you belong. I alone need you.
We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.
youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics.
People know when they've betrayed themselves. They are very much aware when they are not honest with themselves. They hear the voice that says, "You shouldn't have said that" or "You know that's not right. "
That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.
Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.
I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.
On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?
I have more compassion than if I had led a life where everything worked out exactly as I had planned or if I had never been wounded or if I had never been betrayed or I had never been harmed. I don't think I would be as good a person.