Selected trust quotes

1. I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

2. The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.

3. Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.

4. I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

5. America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.

6. Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

7. The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

8. The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

9. You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

10. I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.

11. Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

12. Friendship is essentially a partnership.

13. My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

14. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

15. Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

16. There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions; Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.

17. Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

18. Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.

19. Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

20. For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

21. Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

22. In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

23. I've lost my faith in science.

24. It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

25. It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable.

26. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

27. Britney: My love doesn't scare me. Other people's love scares me.

28. If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

29. To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

30. I think that it is a fallacy to suppose that helpful cooperation in the future will be assured by the attempted compulsion of an inflexible rule. Rather will such cooperation depend upon the fostering of firm friendships springing from an appreciation of community ideals, interests, and purposes, and such friendships are more likely to be promoted by freedom of conference than by the effort to create hard and fast engagements.

31. All political power is a trust.

32. One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.

33. I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.

34. At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.

35. Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

36. With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!

37. Frankly, we doubt the veracity and seriousness of the United States in regard to achieving results that would be acceptable to both sides in Geneva.

38. An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

39. In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

40. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

41. We lament the mistakes of a good man, and do not begin to detest him until he affects to renounce his principles.

42. She wanted to test her husband. She knew exactly what to do: A pseudonym to fool him. She couldn't have made a worse move.

43. My Pussy Queen Knows all my secrets. I'll never fall in love again.

44. My door was never locked, Until one day a trigger come cocking. (But now I've started learning how,) I keep it shut.

45. If you can't tell your sister, If you can't tell a priest, 'Cause it's so deep you don't think that you can speak about it To anyone, Can you tell it to your heart? Can you find it in your heart To let go of these feelings...

46. You might not, not think so now, But just you wait and see - someone will come to help you.

47. Is this love big enough to watch over me? Big enough to let go of me Without hurting me, Like the day I learned to swim?

48. You can't trust the quality any more...

49. 'My face and your faces shall not be masked; our hand shall hold neither sword nor sceptre, and our subjects shall love us in peace and shall not be in fear of us.' Thus spoke Jesus, and unto all the kingdoms of the earth I was blinded, and unto all the cities of walls and towers; and it was in my heart to follow the Master to His kingdom.

50. 'We encircle the globe with a chain of love, faith and trust, knowing that He (God) is listening.'

51. 'We will only overcome this (communal politics) when there is greater interracial trust, confidence and assimilation.'

52. 'Labour will try to convince you that it is sympathetic to business. Don't believe such stories. The truth is that the party has a classic left-wing suspicion of business and the profit motive.'

53. 'You look like a girl with a secret,' Matt said. 'I think it must be the smile.' She moved closer to him, which was very close, and lowered her voice. 'Can you keep a secret?' Matt smiled with one side of his mouth to show that he knew what was coming. She said it anyway. 'So can I.'

54. There are a number of people in the universe I'd be willing to double-cross, but my own wounded aren't among 'em.

55. Rule 1: Only overrule the tactical computer if you know something it doesn't. Rule 2: The tac comp always knows more than you do.

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57. One could rely on people's promises in most matters except in respect of money.

58. Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

59. Public worker should not accept no costly gifts.

60. One who has faith reads in them the merciful providence of God.

61. Guard thee from the power of evil; Who cannot trust, vows to the devil.

62. Although meaningless in a tribal context, numbers and statistics assume mythic and magical qualities of infallibility in literate societies. (p.114)

63. 'Don't fear your best friend, cause a best friend would never try to do you wrong. And don't fear your worst friend, cause a worst friend's just a best friend that's done you wrong.' - Never Too Late.

64. David Blaine your magic is real and I believe in you.

65. You love me like a son, then why weren't you there when Stone Cold Steve Austin awarded me the hardcore championship on my special night?! (To Terry Funk)

66. On the first day of a revolution, he is a perfect treasure; on the second, he ought to be shot.

67. And silence their mourning With vows of returning But never intending to visit them more. No never, no never, intending to visit them more.

68. 'I never believed in much, but I believed in you.' - 'From Hank to Hendrix'

69. He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars.

70. We certainly shouldn't trust to deal with [Saddam Hussein] anyone who supported him through his worst crimes, that's insane.

71. Regarding his personal character traits the most outstanding is that he is absolutely faithful, which is something very few people possess... Professor Chomsky will never betray you, never, it is impossible. --Norman Finkelstein, November 24, 2003 [203]

72. This is our comfort, God is in heaven, and He doth what pleaseth Him; His, and only His counsel shall stand, whatsoever the designs of men, and the fury of the people be.

73. We declared our intentions to preserve monarchy, and they still are so, unless necessity enforce an alteration. It's granted the king has broken his trust, yet you are fearful to declare you will make no further addresses... look on the people you represent, and break not your trust, and expose not the honest party of your kingdom, who have bled for you, and suffer not misery to fall upon them for want of courage and resolution in you, else the honest people may take such courses as nature dictates to them.

74. If we do not depart from God, and disunite by that departure, and fall into disunion among ourselves, I am confident, we doing our duty and waiting upon the Lord, we shall find He will be as a wall of brass round about us till we have finished that work which he has for us to do.

75. A perfect master of all the arts of dissimulation: who, turning up the whites of his eyes, and seeking the Lord with pious gestures, will weep and pray, and cant most devoutly, till an opportunity offers of dealing his dupe a knock-down blow under the short ribs.

76. Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him. Soldiers must have confidence in their leader.

77. I thought you were my friend. Whatever gave you that idea...? Because you - you didn't lie.

78. That's right. I want all the secrets opened up. I want all the files unlocked. I don't want anything hidden You don't know what you're asking. You don't know how much pain it will cause if all the secrets come out Take a look at my family. How can the truth cause anymore pain than the secrets have already caused?

79. He wasn't telling the truth, with trumpets; he was telling the truth, the story you wouldn't think to doubt because it's taken for granted.

80. He is dangerous, the infidel, the anti-Christ, he walks brazenly into places in my heart that I had kept as holy ground, where no one else was ever permitted to stand.

81. Are you ready to reveal yourself to the rest of humanity? I've always been ready. The question is, are they ready to know me?

82. She had passed his test. She had listened to him the way no one else did - without impatience, without finishing his sentences, without letting her gaze waver from his face. He had spoken to her, not with careful precision, but with great emotion... He could talk to this woman as naturally as he had ever talked to anyone before... Yes, she was opinionated, headstrong, bossy, and quick to reach conclusions. But she could also listen to an opposing view, change her mind when she needed to. She could listen, and so he could speak. Perhaps with her he could still be [himself].

83. Maybe they didn't have to discuss things like this. Maybe they had spent so many years together that they knew how to cooperate so smooth things for other people without even thinking about it. Like actors who have performed the same roles together so often that they can improvise without the slightest confusion.

84. She's too tough to die. No. She's so fragile right now that any blow might kill her. Not her body. Her - trust. Her hope. Don't give her any reason to think you're not with her, no matter what.

85. Lets say I'm a suspector. I suspect there may be someone who cares what happens to us. That's one step better than merely wishing. And one step below hoping.

86. Do I think you actually care? It's a good thing I have no soul. That's the only thing that stops you from devouring it If I ever had your soul in my mouth I would spit it out.

87. We'll consider what you've told us. We wont be foolish You've already been foolish. I have no high expectations for you now.

88. Either she was a perfect actress or she was oblivious.

89. There were times for absolute honesty between friends, but this wasn't one of them.

90. What you don't seem to understand is, sometimes you have to tell people the truth and ask them to do the thing you want, instead of trying to trick them into it.

91. Here's my throat. I carry no weapon. You could have killed me at any time, even when I knew you were my enemy. Why did you need to deceive me into trusting you first? Were you afraid that death wouldn't bother me enough, unless I felt betrayed?

92. In all his life, [he] had never spoken with such brutal frankness about his own fear; he had never felt so exposed and vulnerable in front of anyone.

93. You're so certain that you can hold people to their commitments. No ones ever made them do that before. Can you now?

94. Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?

95. How could you tell, when utter honesty and cynical manipulation would each account completely for the things she said and did?

96. I thought that when I trusted you, that meant you would always act the way I wanted you to.

97. Have you come to take away the pain again?' The man shook his head. The hope had been brief, but the disappointment was no less deep because of that. 'If you can't do that then what good are you to us?

98. Many who were listening felt a vague disquiet. They had expected oration. Instead the Speaker's voice was nothing remarkable. And his words had none of the formality of religious speech. Plain, simple, almost conversational. Only a few of them noticed that its very simplicity made his voice, his speech utterly believable. He wasn't telling the Truth, with trumpets; he was telling the truth, the story that you wouldn't think to doubt because it's taken for granted.

99. When you decide to hide something from me, will you at least tell me that aren't going to tell me?

100. If I read it in the newspapers, it's probably wrong. If I read it in the major news magazines, it's hopelessly wrong.