Steven Dietz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.
-- Steven Dietz

#Heartbreak #Betrayal #Betrayed
Beware the ridiculous. It will one day rule you.
-- Steven Dietz

#One Day #Ridiculous
We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as hard as it was a thousand years ago.
-- Steven Dietz

#Art #Years #Play
A people who`s primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.
-- Steven Dietz

#Shopping #People #Television
We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with certainty the name of our maker. But I do... Bram Stoker.
-- Steven Dietz

#Dust #Names #Together

Saying his name stabbed my heart, like someone had ripped through my carefully stitched up world and exposed the infected, pulsing red tissue that I thought was healing.
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust.
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeatsâ€¦these are the facts.
That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection of others, the impatience of many, or a friend's betrayal, we must be able to pray in such a manner that an abiding faith and a strong testimony that the Lord will be with us to the end, will compel us to say, "Nevertheless, Father, Thy will be done, and with Thy help, in patience I will follow firmly on the path that takes me back to Thee."
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
A dog trusts deeply and so is easily betrayed.

Steven Dietz famous quotes

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