Quotes About Trust

So—why do we need a covenant? Because a written covenant makes our commitment real on a level that mere conversation does not. It provides a way for the group to claim shared ownership for their behavior because it contains detailed guidelines that help the group function together in agreed-upon ways.

he yells, you run like the wind. That lad plays you like an old piano – and you know it.' 'But he's only four months old—' Edie nodded briskly.

Remember, attraction is only one part of a relationship. Loyalty, commitment, responsibility and maturity make up the rest.

I fell on my feet and found my bearings because of these. I could talk to them. They listened and answered, for or against, but always weighing what they had heard, unlike my mother, who used language for manipulation, not to express an opinion or state a fact. What sounded like a fact might be a lie, and every opinion was tailored for the moment.

Assumptions and expectations will kill any relationship, so let's you and me not go there, okay?

I'll follow, if you give the sign.

I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.

You couldn't love someone the way he had loved her and then be turned off them in five minutes by nothing more than lies and daydreams. Could you? Could you?

Don't make mountains out of molehills. If your partner says that everything is OK, believe it.

In this confusing state of affairs when each fact is immediately contrasted with a counter-fact and everyone is branded a liar, when the word truth can be used only in apology and within quotation marks, it seems that the only object that can claim total honesty is fiction itself.

No forgiveness for lies.

I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.

The truth hurts for a little while. A lie hurts forever.

Andy didn't know Blake before he heard the rumor about the gun. As the janitor's son, Andy has his own problems with nasty rumors

Within a week or two the calm returned between us, but something was missing. Dad could feel it, too. The first casualty of distrust, I learned, is familiarity. My father saw me as a slightly different person now.

Earn your money in just ways and always be responsible with it.

God: You should always believe in God because he is real, but you should never trust him because he is pure evil.

How can you misbehave so badly and expect me to believe that you believe in God? It's a dead giveaway that you are a liar.

Only assholes shake hands for business, for show, good people shake hands because it's just to do so.

The Little King is nobody's fool, you're my fools.

Trust me, if I were gay I'd be getting more action than I'm getting now.

Never trust sheep.

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

Fortunately, Luke's unwavering faith in his father's innate goodness had proved to be a stronger force than the power of the dark side.