Quotes About Treacherous

Love is a damaging mistake, and it's accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

Love is a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

Of all the daughters I could have had, why did God give me an ungrateful one like you? Everything I endured for you! How dare you! How dare you abandon me like this, you treacherous little harami!

The past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

what one ought to capture in beauty is that which is treacherous and irresistible...

A snake is summer's treason

I'd be a fool to trust him completely. He was who he was, after all. A scorpion with a treacherous nature." Excerpt From: The Sinner

Tell me how she behaves and I will imitate her. In the dark we are all meat and treacherous however our hair kinks or skin smells. Tell me, and I will give you the wedding-smile and fall into your arms like a mountain of silk.

Each extra lock on the entry door in response to successive rumours of foreign-looking criminals in cloaks full of daggers and each next revision of the diet in response to a successive 'food panic' makes the world look more treacherous and fearsome, and prompts more defensive actions – that will, alas, add more vigour to the self-propagating capacity of fear.

My respect for Westerns have gone way, way up. It's hard and treacherous work. It's hard to find people these days who can ride horses like that and jump onto trains.

How many times during his Cornish childhood had he been caught unawares as he stood with his back to the treacherous sea? Those who did not know the ocean well forgot its solidity, its brutality. When it slammed into them with the force of cold metal they were appalled.

Zona peligrosa

Its from the deep waters that we come. And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters. We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.

I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.

And so began a vicious economic spiral. "It's a marvel, looking back on it now," Lippmann would later write ruefully, "that we could ever have so completely thought that a boom under such treacherous conditions was permanent."126

Nao de la China, these ships were called, because even though they sailed from Manila, most of their cargo originated in China. They left in a fleet of three for this treacherous nine-thousand mile voyage, now they were but one. What happened to the others the crew on San Carlos would never know.

I suppose that is what we have to have to get grace. Give me the courage to stand the pain to get the grace, Oh Lord. Help me with this life that seems so treacherous, so disappointing.

For driving, a January thaw was always preferable to actual ice, but when it was over things froze more treacherously than before. And in its melting and condensing the roadside snow turned to clumps reminiscent of black-spotted cauliflower. Better never to have thawed.

Back in Britannia he had placed Tilla on a list of potentially treacherous natives, and even though he was probably right, Ruso had never forgiven him.

Tigers and crocodiles with two legs are more dangerous than the rest.

Beauty is often deceitful and vain . You've grown up with beautiful women around you . You know how treacherous they can be. - Bathsheba