#betray

You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#broken-promise #trust #betrayal

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#before #betraying #connections #country #feeling

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed. ↗

— Alan Alda

#child #feel #had #i #kill

Betrayal... is my favorite subject. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#favorite #subject

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#comrades #crawl #did #front #i

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#goals #interests #makes #may #naturally

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right. ↗

— William Feather

#bad luck #betrayal #good #good luck #luck

The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them "outside" of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

#central #choices #chose #comment #continuity

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? ↗

— Federico Fellini

#betrayed #chaos #confusion #democratic #does

Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#betrayal #even #full #his #human