Quotes About Trust

In times when nothing stood / but worsened, or grew strange / there was one constant good: / she did not change.

If I looked into your face / expecting a word or a laugh on the old conditions, / it would not be a friend who met my eye

give me faith not religion...

But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

Can you ground your faith on such impossibilities?

has amounted at times to a crisis of confidence in the police, especially

Personally, he much preferred to get them chatting. People were generally much less inclined to want to kill you once you'd chatted for a bit, and if they weren't, well, at least you could use the time to think of an escape plan.

Uncle knows best.

I thought you'd say it might be a trap.' 'It might be trap,' he said. 'It doesn't feel like a trap.' 'Well it wouldn't, would it? Not if it was a good trap.

Uncle knows best. -All the Lost Boys

Most of the time he didn't even bother to look back at the boy struggling along behind him on his weary pony. He just tossed words over his shoulder and expected Ansel to catch them.

Then, beaming at Tom and Caul, he topped up their glasses with more wine to wash down the pack of half-truths and outright lies he'd fed them

We'll be all right!" she said. "We'll be all right now! Let's go up and find out whom we've hitched a lift with!

The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.

And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead.

We find everywhere in this world the traces of a revealed God and of a hidden God; revealed enough to strengthen our faith, concealed enough to try our faith.

People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,By just exchange one for the other given:I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,There never was a better bargain driven.

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

what proof is there that dupery through hope is so much worse than dupery through fear?

When I asked my boss if he would refer me to someone in London where I was going next, he replied, "If you are really good, then we would not want you to leave. If you are bad, then we would not refer you. If you are just so so, why should we bother?" So he did not do anything. Luckily his boss, a Swiss manager, felt compelled to notify his London colleagues that I was going to be in town. And thus I got hired.

They are all men (always men) of strong conviction and profound trust in their own judgement.

Call me an "optimistic skeptic.