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Quotes About Trust

I try to remind myself of all the mean things she's done to me, but in the end it doesn't matter. With Leah, it never did. Even from the very beginning. No matter how much she hurt me, I always came back. All she had to do was reach for my hand and pull.
~ Jo Knowles
Leah used me. She picked me because somehow she knew I would keep her secrets. Somehow she knew I would do whatever she wanted. She knew I wouldn't stop her. Somehow she knew… . She knew part of me would like it.
~ Jo Knowles
Worry never climbed a hill Worry never paid a bill Worry never dried a tear Worry never calmed a fear Worry never darned a heel Worry never cooked a meal Worry never led a horse to water Worry never done a thing you'd think it oughta.
~ Jo Petty
They were not always in accord, but over time they developed such good communication that even their most bitter disagreements became part of their axiomatic assumption of mutual long-term ongoing love and life together.
~ Jo Walton
Eu não podia tão depressa fechar meu coração a ele. Sabia disso. Senti.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Crime, que sei, é fazer traição, ser ladrão de cavalos ou de gado... não cumprir a palavra...
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Crime, que sei, é fazer traição, ser ladrão de cavalos ou de gado... não cumprir a palavra..." — "Sempre eu cumpro a palavra dada!" — gritou de lá Zé Bebelo.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Será que chove, Primo? — Capaz. — Ind'hoje? Será? — 'Manhã. — Chuva brava, de panca? — Às vez… — Da banda de riba? — De trás.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Reconhecer que somos irmãos é sempre suspeito, quando esse reconhecer envolve, de nossa parte, a aceitação de condições duras e, da outra parte, não envolve nada além de palavras
~ João Ubaldo Ribeiro
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
~ Joan Baez
I've never said this to a girl before." I bit my lip, waiting. "Well..." He looked down. "I'm not sure how to say this." He took a deep breath and announced, "I really like fighting evil with you.
~ Joan Bauer
Will we have bodyguards?" "We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them.
~ Joan Bauer
I'm working hard to have a good life. You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You can buy a can of paint and surround yourself with color. You can plant a flower and watch it grow. You can decide to trust people, the right people. You can decide to start over and let other people start over, too.
~ Joan Bauer
I reached into my bag and pulled out a pumpkin spice muffin with walnuts that was as moist as anything. "It can be plain for breakfast or I can top it with cream cheese frosting. I like a muffin that can go from day to evening." I gave it to her. She sniffed it, nodded, and held it up. "How do I know you're not trying to poison me?" I wasn't expecting that question. "Ms. Morningstar, I swear, if I was going to poison you, I wouldn't ruin a perfectly fine muffin to do it.
~ Joan Bauer
When you listen to G. T. Stoop, you understand the importance of being a honorable person, you get charged to fight for the truth, you get angry that so many politicians are playing games with people's trust.
~ Joan Bauer
Ellie: "You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil." Richard: "Good will triumph over evil." Ellie: "Liar.
~ Joan Bauer
You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You can buy a can of paint and surround yourself with color. You can plant a flower and watch it grow. You can decide to trust people - the right people. You can decide to start over and let other people start over too" -Sugar Mae Cole
~ Joan Bauer
Addie always keeps her promises. That's why my mother gave me to her.
~ Joan Bauer
Wes held my hand in front of Dad, who played it real easy, like I had boys around all the time. JoAnn said I was lucky, and she should know. Her father specialized in fear, being a life insurance salesman, and could bring a boy to his knees.
~ Joan Bauer
She stamped the book and gave it to me. "You bring it back in three weeks." I held it over my heart. Mrs. Worth smiled. "That's where a book should be carried.
~ Joan Bauer
Millstone sputtered, "I don't know where you're getting your information, G.T., but that's as bogus as a barking cat!
~ Joan Bauer
Each time she told me, 'Hon, leaving you with Addie was the best thing I could have done for you. You need constants in your life.' She had a different hair color each time she said it.
~ Joan Bauer
What, Mother, could possibly happen in forty-eight hours?" She chose not to answer. "I'll strap a fire extinguisher on my back and lug around the mobile phone, okay?" "Even when you sleep . . ." she insisted. I put my hand over my heart. "So help me, Mom, I'll look so weird, no one will come near me." "That's my girl.
~ Joan Bauer
For, without the knowledge of love, fear is all that remains, and we can never feel safe.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO