Quotes About Trust

You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!

But can we trust him?' he said. 'Myself, I'd trust him to the end of the Earth,' said Ford. 'Oh yes,' said Arthur, 'and how far's that?' 'About twelve minutes away,' said Ford. 'Come on, I need a drink.

It's all devastatingly true — except the bits that are lies

our lot is to fear God and find our contentment in his providence

President Johnson no longer trusted Cronkite and his CBS ilk. At a March 1967 dinner party, he told reporters that CBS and NBC were "controlled by the Vietcong.

God was like the phone company: You paid your bill, and sometimes you got cut off anyway.

Mommy loves me I know. Mommy loves me I know. I know Mommy loves me. I am scared of her. A

and when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them Will you take my heart-- stains and all? and they say I will, and they ask you the same question and you say, I will, too.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.

You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control.

I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the secret corridor and there are all of those doors that open sideways, and upside down and gateways and stuff? I think that everyone keeps a whole bunch of doors just like this between themselves and the world. But when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together.

Well, it's amazing what you can find in this world if you're willing to sleep with people.

You will see the effects of dark secrets making themselves known-- via their minds and bodies and via the stories your friends...will begin telling you...The only payback for all of this-- for the conversion of their once-young hearts into tar--will be that you will love your friends more, even though they have made you see the universe as an emptier and scarier place...

But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents' generation seems neither able nor interested in understanding how marketers exploit them. They take shopping at face value.

But that's what family members are for. We crave them and need them not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about but because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.

It had been drilled into us that to feel fear is to not fully trust God. Whoever made that up has never been beneath a cafeteria table with a tiny thread of someone else's blood trickling onto their leg.

Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.

D'Agosta had long ago learned, when working with Pendergast, to never get caught without two things: a gun and a flashlight.

The good people of Kibbencook, indeed all human beings, want answers, not questions, from their religious leaders. No matter.

It's not like Father to be late