Quotes About Trust

There are one or two people - I'm not talking about family, about Zhenya or your mother - whom a pariah can trust. He can contact these people without first waiting for a sign.

My father said to me when I was a child, 'Boy, set there until I come back.' That was his law and I had to obey him. He went off somewhere and forgot about me. I sat there all day waiting for my father and almost got a stroke from the sun. I said to my son one time, 'Boy, set there until I come back.' You know what he said to me? 'For what?' You're not going to cram down the throats of today's youth what got crammed down my father's. Young people want to know the facts now.

We have to trust in our future

Avoid checking up on whether someone did something the previous day. Team members will start feeling like they are being micromanaged. In general, looking forward is great management; looking backward is micromanagement.

La vida es un viaje en paracaídas y no lo que tú quieres creer.

Rather, China rightly expected that the American media would parrot its accusations, which privately even the communist apparat in Beijing likely does not believe. If it did trust its own propaganda, Beijing certainly would not send over three hundred thousand of its best students to American universities to live in jeopardy in an inherently racist society.

Thucydides's ancient warning that "it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire."16

Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

Faith is necessary to men; woe to him who believes in nothing!

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

God knows better than we do what we need.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.

What love commences can be finished by God alone.

I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised my life. Do you know who it is you are destroying here? It is yourself.

Books are cold but sure friends.

If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

Books are cold but safe friends.

Because things are not agreeable, said Jean Valjean, that is no reason for being unjust towards God.

Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui custodiunt eam, Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch who guard it.