I've Been Cheated Quotes

#1. I always believed that If I'm not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart I've been cheated by nature.

Annie Ali

#2. Oh, do not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the impression that I did not manage to be happy.

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Stephen Ambrose

#4. Perhaps he should give up on love and just build furniture instead. He could do with a few more free standing wardrobes for a start.

Jenny O'Brien

#5. Near the end of our lives, many of us struggle to move beyond the death of our dreams, beyond how we have been wounded and cheated, and beyond all the resentments that come with aging.

Ronald Rolheiser

#6. Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated.

Barack Obama

#7. But I've been in so much trouble. I threw an apple at Lea's face. I fought guards. I cheated on my trig exam."
Aiden looked at me, frowning. "You cheated on your math exam?"
"Uh, forget that. Anyway, wow, I'm just surprised.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#8. I've never cheated or been cheated upon. I've seen my parents together and secure. So I feel the same way. Infidelity stems from low self-esteem. You want to cheat when you don't feel good about yourself.

Preity Zinta

#9. I have done a number of things to keep this man. I have lied and cheated. I have been sexy and meek, fierce and vulnerable. I have been everything but myself.

Tarryn Fisher

#10. Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn your mistakes and learn your lessons. Remain strong with your head held high.

Angela Merkel

#11. I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

Lance Armstrong

#12. Did I mention any name?" But dissembling was wasted; Eldir only glowered until Sethvir gave way with a shrug. "That's the part of his personality that makes us all feel like we've been kissing coiled vipers for a penny bet.

Janny Wurts

#13. Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way ... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated.

Gore Vidal

#14. You're an assignment, not an assignation. Soon as I get your pretty boy ass through the Wilderness and deliver you to the Outpost, you're no more than a stain to spit-shine off my boots.

Rie Warren

#15. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

John Lydon

#16. I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

Boy George

#17. As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.

Blake Mycoskie

#18. A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

Mary Renault

#19. 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

#20. A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

Leo Tolstoy

#21. Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.

Eriq La Salle

#22. We grew up hearing stories about how he has been cheated - out of money, out of reputation, out of a grander fate. We had lost everything, he'd wail, and that was despite the fact that we had each other.

Alison Singh Gee

#23. When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was an elusive trophy he could touch, but not put on his shelf.
This made her rare. This made her precious.
This made him ... love her.

J.R. Ward

#24. I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.

Steve Earle

#25. Do you believe there's hope at the end?"
"No, no, I dont, but im still going, you coming with me?

Patrick Ness

#26. Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on,

Cameron Diaz

#27. Before we aspire after theoretical perfection in the amelioration of our political state, it is necessary that we possess those advantages which we have been cheated of, and which the experience of modern times has proved that nations even under the present conditions are susceptible.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#28. Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?

Richard Russo

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

George Orwell

#30. I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.

Rogers Hornsby

#31. I don't like people feeling like they've been cheated out of their money, and I too have been caught in the back of floor shows, only to inspect the backs of necks and the mudded sounds pushing though bodies.

Brian Chippendale

#32. I have been cheated out of being treated like a human being. In my reflection I saw an empty vessel. They had cheated me and I was desperate to make the sharp pain in my head stop.

M.B. Dallocchio

#33. Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.

Walter Savage Landor

#34. Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.

Blaise Pascal

#35. What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.

Newt Gingrich

#36. Recalling vividly the love scene I had just witnessed. How much I had been cheated! How much of what should be every woman's was not mine and

V.C. Andrews

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

Kurt Vonnegut

#38. The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

Janette Turner Hospital

#39. Some of these walls had been of my own making; my rebellion, my resistance; my arrogance, my need for control. Some had been built around me by the misfortunes of life; my loneliness; my orphaned heart; my fear of rejection. I had kept God at bay, and cheated myself of the warmth of His mercy.

Tessa Afshar

#40. If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.

Phyllis Battelle

#41. When you can release on your ego long enough to view your perceptions as incomplete or misleading, it gives you the freedom to imagine new and potentially more useful ways of looking at the world.

Scott Adams