Quotes About Trust

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen

There's nothing worse in the world than to owe and be beholden to anyone.

Es lo que dice mi padre de los hombres que no beben –dice Eamon–, que no son de fiar.

The devil you know is better than the devil you don't.

Never smoke another man's pipe.

Eternal God, give me eyes to see evidence of Your existence in my world, and help me rest in the awareness that You are in charge.

This was nobility. Their mutual affection and esteem suddenly increased enormously. It was Damon and Pythias; it was David and Jonathan; nothing could ever estrange them. Now it was for life or death.

My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.

In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.

Sometimes the Lord wants us to wait and rest in Him. Other times, however, He wants us to press into His kingdom and receive what is rightfully ours in Christ.

When you're up there hundreds of people will claim you as a friend. When you're down, you're lucky if one will buy you a cup of coffee.

Dad just smiled wryly. "You'll learn, Frank, that when you're up there're hundreds of people who'll claim you as a friend. When you're down, you're lucky if one of them will buy you a cup of coffee. If I had it to do over again, I'd select my friends more carefully. I do have a couple of good friends. They're not wealthy, but one of them got me my job in the post office.

I've just gotta save myself and then I'm Yours.

I make you believe that I am racist ... so you wouldn't suspect that I had sex with your best friend.

I TRASHED MY PARENTS HOUSE TO LOOK LIKE I HAD HAD A PARTY WHY THEY WERE OUT OF TOWN… … MY MOM WOULD THINK I HAD FRIENDS:

Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart.

If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.

In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

First impressions are always unreliable.

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

Milena - what a rich heavy name, almost too full to be lifted, and in the beginning I didn't like it much, it seemed to me a Greek or Roman gone astray in Bohemia, violated by Czech, cheated of its accent, and yet in colour and form it is marvellously a woman, a woman whom one carries in one's arms out of the world, and out of the fire, I don't know which, and she presses herself willingly and trustingly into your arms.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping one another. They are tied together by ropes, and it's bad enough when the ropes around an individual loosen and he drops somewhat lower than the others into empty space; ghastly when the ropes break and he falls. That's why we should cling to the others.