Quotes About Trust

There's a contradiction in your thinking," I said. "If I took your dirty money, you wouldn't be able to trust my honesty.

I've spilled all my secrets. How do you make people do it?" "I don't. People like to talk about what's hurting them. It takes the edge off the pain sometimes.

What did the old man want?" "Your husband's money, just like everyone else." "But not you, eh?" Her voice was sardonic. "Not me," I said. "Money costs too much.

You understand my idea of a happy marriage is essentially anything that works.

He sat down with great caution, after inspecting the chair for concealed electrodes, and made me the gift of his card.

Bess came out of her room. She had changed into a dress which had to be hooked up the back and I was elected to hook it up. Though she had a strokeable-looking back, my hands were careful not to wander. The easy ones were nearly always trouble: frigid or nympho. schizy or commercial or alcoholic, sometimes all five at once. Their nicely wrapped gifts of themselves often turned out to be homemade bombs, or fudge with arsenic in it.

Kids who are accustomed to having their concerns dismissed tend to be far less receptive to hearing the concerns of their caregivers. Over time, such kids also become far less receptive to talking to their parents.

And it's a lot easier when your kid is your partner instead of your enemy.

Just as loyalty is adherence to a trust, so treason is failure to abide by the terms of a trust. If all things are relative, and each is entitled to his own views with equal significance given to all views, then there can be neither loyalty nor treason.

As private parts to the Gods are we, that they may play with us for their own pleasure.

Being a mother is about protecting your children from every conceivable thing that might cause them hurt, but it's also about trusting them to live the best way for them, the best way they can; and trusting that even when you are not there to hold their hand, they can succeed.

Jill would kill me if she thought anyone fancied me," he said with charming anxiety. "No, she wouldn't", Natalie reassured him. "We like our men to be fancied. What we do not like is for them to fancy others. That is when you risk wandering into the realm of sudden and violent death.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.

For the WriterChicks…a brain trust without equal, a circle of friends who never let go, and women I love with my whole heart.

The people you love and the people who love you, no matter how piss-poor a job they do of showing it, are all you have in this life.

the home team: my dearest, most patient, most beloved husband, Rich, who does everything so that I can do

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

Sad is the man who has no place to put his faith other than in himself.

You can move a lot of garbage across the bridge of love: alcoholism, infidelity, addiction, abuse.

Si hay alguien en este mundo en quien puedes confiar es en Marlene. Marlene es una montaña, como lo era antes mi madre, y no una voluble paloma atrapada en una tormenta que de pronto está completamente fuera de sí un jueves cualquiera. Marlene es tan firme como el suelo que pisa, ya sean las dos o las cinco de la tarde. Nunca falla, su humor es estable y no tiene la menor idea de qué es el miedo; en realidad, todo el mundo debería tener una madre como ella.

I know if you hold on tight to faith and memories, they'll always be with you.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.