Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.
In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.
America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you. You can break a promise. The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself?
Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.
We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves.
Love means having something to betray.
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore.
It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.
Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.
I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
I was shamed. My son, Bill, who was 14 come to me and said: "Mother, you've been professing that you're an atheist for a long time now. Well, I don't believe in God either, but every day in school I'm forced to say prayers, and I feel like a hypocrite. Why should I be compelled to betray my beliefs?" I couldn't answer him.
Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.