Quotes About Trust

If we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impossible to restore anything approaching reasonable political discourse.

The people of Minnesota value a politician who believes what he says and says what he believes and votes that way.

Some good things did come out of the scandal. Husbands and wives started having frank discussions about what does and does not constitute adultery. For example, my wife has told me that she feels that oral sex is adultery. Which I guess explains why we haven't had any since we've been married.

I meet people who bought into the misinformation spread about Hillary Clinton and couldn't bring themselves to vote for someone who was insufficiently attentive to proper email security protocols.

There are only two kinds of politics. They're not radical and reactionary or conservative and liberal or even Democratic and Republican. There are only the politics of fear and the politics of trust. One says you are encircled by monstrous dangers. Give us power over your freedom so we may protect you. The other says the world is a baffling and hazardous place, but it can be shaped to the will of men.

Quality is a nice thing to have, but brands are not built by quality alone.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

We should add that it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk: it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love.

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

There is no one more likely to destroy us than the person we marry.

The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.

We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.

Though we sometimes suspect that people are hiding things from us, it is not until we are in love that we feel an urgency to press our inquiries, and in seeking answers, we are apt to discover the extent to which people disguise and conceal their real lives.

I will never be able to do or be everything you want, nor vice versa, but I'd like to think we can be the sort of people who will dare to tell each other who we really are. The alternative is silence and lies, which are the real enemies of love.

We pick our friends not only because they are kind and enjoyable company, but also, perhaps more importantly, because they understand us for who we think we are.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but Do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test. Do you love me stripped of everything that might be lost, for only the things I will have for ever?

One has to go into relationships with equal expectations, ready to give as much as the other - not with one person wanting a fling and the other real love...

Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.

We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.

Love reaches a pitch at those moments when our beloved turns out to understand, more clearly than others have ever been able to, and perhaps even better than we do ourselves, the chaotic, embarrassing and shameful parts of us. That someone else gets who we are and both sympathizes with and forgives us for what they see underpins our whole capacity to trust and to give. Love is a dividend of gratitude for our lover's insight into our own confused and troubled psyche.

The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.

Love stories begin not when we fear someone may be unwilling to see us again, but when they decide they would have no objection to seeing us all the time; not when they have every opportunity to run away, but when they have exchanged solemn vows promising to hold us, and be held captive by us, for life. Our

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe that someone or something is out to hurt us