Quotes About Trust

believing that in the presence of this person we are safe.

it was not love that sustained a marriage but the marriage that would sustain the love.

So it wasn't me that made him do this, if he did this while married to Joanne and also to Estelle? Then it wasn't because of me? I could not believe this. And I thought about what he had said the night before about choice. He may not have had any choice about this part of him. How do I know?

have sometimes been sad that Tennessee Williams wrote that line for Blanche DuBois, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Many of us have been saved many times by the kindness of strangers, but after a while it sounds trite, like a bumper sticker. And that's what makes me sad, that a beautiful and true line comes to be used so often that it takes on the superficial sound of a bumper sticker.

I have sometimes been sad that Tennessee Williams wrote that line for Blanche DuBois, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Many of us have been saved many times by the kindness of strangers, but after a while it sounds trite, like a bumper sticker. And that's what makes me sad, that a beautiful and true line comes to be used so often that it takes on the superficial sound of a bumper sticker.

I said, "But, William, someone had to know this was going to happen! I mean in the government, someone had to know and they looked away.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

It's the person who likes to pat dogs to whom dogs come for pats.

All right, I will. But I'll make you a little pledge." She asked, "What's that?" "If ever, someplace down the road, you and I differ on a matter of judgment that's important, you have my permission to remind me of this incident, and that your judgment was right and mine wrong.

We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.

No autocratic government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants. It must be a league of honor, a partnership of opinion . . . Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner

Hobbes's citizens realize that they must give up their natural liberty in order to protect them from themselves. They are like the alcoholic who hands the key to his liquor cabinet to a friend and says, "No matter what I say, don't give me back the key." He knows that unless someone stops him, he is a danger to himself and others.

I learned when you shout at someone," he once said, "you make him afraid. And when he's afraid, he won't tell you his troubles"—or tell a manager the truth about what on the assembly line wasn't working, or what had gone wrong. An

By rounding on Kornilov, Russia's prime minister made an enemy of the one man who could have helped him prevent what was coming.

We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.

Ah yet, when all is thought and said, The heart still overrules the head; Still what we hope we must believe, And what is given us receive; Must still believe, for still we hope That in a world of larger scope, What here is faithfully begun Will be completed, not undone. My child, we still must think, when we That ampler life together see, Some true result will yet appear Of what we are, together, here.

Hoe kan iemand ooit bewijzen dat hij je vertrouwen waard is, als je het hem niet eerst van harte schenkt.

Hoop die nooit wordt uitgesproken duurt het langst.

Zij steunden elkaar in het idee dat vrouwen zichzelf tekort doen door op hun gevoel te vertrouwen en dat ze pas werkelijk vrij zullen zijn wanneer de intuïtie voor eens en altijd door het intellect wordt overwonnen. Hierover rebbelden ze met een passie die hun gelijk ongewild bewees.