Quotes About Trust

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

Never let a gynecologist put anything in your nose.

Gilda's book ends with her acceptance of what I had called, in working with her, "delicious ambiguity," the freedom that comes with simply not knowing the outcome of every happening or happenstance.

Hawkins was annoyed but placed his trust in tact and diplomacy. He sent a polite but firm letter to the Portuguese commander reminding him that their two countries were at peace and asking that 'he release my men and goods, for that we were Englishmen.' The commander was in no mood to be lenient and sent Hawkins a return letter 'vilely abusing His Majesty [King James I] terming him King of Fishermen, and of an island of no import'.

I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

Well it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-

Well it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently rooted in friendship.

Friends see most of each other's flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

Because isn't that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn't that the simple magic phrase?

To look into the eye of a horse is to see a reflection of yourself that you might've forgotten. No grief was big enough not to be washed clean in your horse's eye.

There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy.

There are many kinds of betrayals. There are the small ones: the unkind word, the laughter behind someone's back, the petty lies. And there are the betrayals that break hearts, destroy worlds, and turn the strong, sweet light of day into bitter dust.

In Silicon Valley it is assumed that information on slick professional websites is more trustworthy than that from amateur sites, because that is how techies think. But conspiracy theorists only trusted scruffy sites, since they presumed that the hated elites created the "smart" sites. This insight matters enormously if you want to debunk conspiracies.

A midwife knows too much . . . But if she is truly a wise woman, she knows when to keep her mouth shut.

You know what they say: Better one true friend than a hundred relatives.

What does it mean to love by degree? What does this say, too, about my place in my own children's love chain? Is this the cycle of life, then? To be prepared to be thrown under the bus, if necessary, by those you value most in the world?

The ways in which women nth love and support one another, and mistrust and betray and undermine one another, may be the most complex thing in the universe.

He is that sort of person—the kind who appears to have no boundaries at first, who you have to get to know incredibly well to understand that his guileless openness is in part a defense to protect the deeper, more closely guarded things about which he is almost pathologically private.

The ways in which women both love and support one another, and mistrust and betray and undermine one another, may be the most complex thing in the universe.

freedom is only ever a fall without a net.