Felt Cheated Quotes

#1. 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.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. I felt cheated and I decided to demand justice of the sultan.

Italo Calvino

#4. So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

Ransom Riggs

#5. Desdemona, mourning her parents, was still imprisoned by the past. And so she stood on the mountain, looking down at the emancipated city, and felt cheated by her ability to feel happy by everybody else.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#6. That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me.

Michel De Montaigne

#7. If I, the group leader, expect you, the group member, to be weak, then I elicit the weak part of you. If I expect you to be able to cope, I elicit your strength.

William Schutz

#8. Our preaching is not the reason the Word works. The Word is the reason our preaching works.

H.B. Charles Jr.

#9. Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.

Guy Davenport

#10. I remembered how angry I was when I saw his name come up the day of the drawing, like I was being cheated somehow. Now I didn't care how that form ended up in the pile; I was just glad it did.
I hoped that he felt the same way.

Kiera Cass

#11. The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#12. Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.

Marsha Blackburn

#13. I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#14. with ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God rais'd impious war in Heav'n and battel proud

John Milton

#15. I was just disciplined. I knew I had to get back into shape after six weeks for the film Goal II, but I cheated in the end - I wore a corset. I loved my pregnancy, I blossomed. I felt goddess-like and very secure. I found it comforting to have a little thing growing inside me, and very calming.

Anna Friel

#16. People were not getting back what they wanted for their sold labor. Taxes grew and services shrank. Prices rose and quality decayed. Everywhere people felt used and betrayed and coerced and cheated.

Marge Piercy

#17. I really love both acting and singing equally.

Brie Larson

#18. The most foolish thing I've ever done related to money was spend too much of my life worrying about whether I had enough or didn't have enough, I always felt I never had enough. I cheated myselfout of living in the moment, and I'll bet I die with a lot left over.

Lois P Frankel

#19. I knew i would win. I cheated to win and so i felt surprised that i felt so surprised!

Daniel B. Harris

#20. It was her religion to make the best of everything.

Lyndall Gordon

#21. In my day-to-day life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like being comfortable.

Nina Dobrev