Quotes About Cheated

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated.

He thought for a while of Mithradates, whose system learned to thrive on poison. He cheated assassins, who made the mistake of using small doses, and was pickled, not destroyed. Tutto fa brodo.

He had counted so carefully. He had abided by the rules, but life had cheated.

The Cherokees tried to do everything within the law and wished only to live in peace on their own lands. Yet they were cheated out of their birthright and treated as if they were less than human.

By morning, I realized that I was his complete superior and I had been sadly cheated in having him for a teacher.

I guess they've become so cynical that they expect to be cheated. These modern companies have things rigged to their advantage.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

In terms of the outdoors, I and the others like me weren't badly cheated as such cheatings go nowadays, but we were cheated nevertheless. We learned quite a lot, but not enough. Instead of learning to move into country, as I think underneath we wanted, we learned mostly how to move onto it in the old crass Anglo-Saxon way, in search of edible or sometimes just mortal quarry.

Always in your stomach and in  your  skin  there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something that you had a right to.

Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something that you had a right to.

It is really most absurd to wish to turn this scene of misery into a pleasure spot and set ourselves the goal of achieving pleasures and joys instead of freedom from pain, as so many do. Those who, with too gloomy a gaze, regard this world as a kind of hell and, accordingly, are only concerned with procuring a fireproof room in it, are much less mistaken. The fool runs after the pleasures of life and sees himself cheated; the sage avoids evils.

From the first extortion he had accepted, from the first directive he had obeyed, he had given them cause to believe that reality was a thing to be cheated, that one could demand the irrational and someone somehow would provide it.

All our lives my brother and I were caught by the fictions my parents told us—fictions about themselves as well as others. Each wanted us to judge the other in his or her favor. Sometimes I felt cheated, as if they never allowed us to have a story of our own. It is only now that I understand how much their story was also mine.

Water, in Grace, is an all-or-nothing proposition, like happiness. When you have rain you have more than enough, just as when you're happy and in love and content with your life, you can't remember how you ever could have felt cheated by fate.

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

You cheated!" she accused Ragnar. "But you learned a lesson," I said, squatting beside her as if I were going to tell her a secret. I leaned forward and whispered in her ear, "Never trust a Dane.

Because fate cannot be cheated, it governs us, and we are all its slaves.

As a businessman, Trump preyed on the hopes and anxieties of struggling middle-class families. He cheated and scammed employees and customers alike. He left behind a trail of bankrupted companies. Past is prologue, and Trump has continued to pursue his own aggrandizement ruthlessly and relentlessly as a candidate and as president-elect.

What a mercy, I thought, that the crippled, the maimed, those whom Fate has cheated, at least in sleep have no knowledge of the shapeliness or unshapeliness of their bodies

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

You read my Cosmo? I read all of your magazines. I took all the love quizzes and pretended I was you answering the questions. How did I do? You cheated, I said.

For this was not the outcry of love, but one at last, and utterly, and forever, cheated.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.