Quotes About Trust

Oxford philosopher John Austin pointed out that saying, "I promise," is a whole different linguistic deal

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Look for loyal ministers in homes with filial sons

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

If a person wishes to gain freedom of spirit and not be always troubled, let him begin by not being frightened by the cross, and he will see how the Lord also helps him carry it and he will gain satisfaction and profit from everything.36

If we are to love someone completely, there can be no room for a competing love.

People still complain, however, as did St. Teresa of Avila four centuries ago, of the lack of knowledgeable spiritual guides. What should one do if he cannot find a competent director? It is my opinion that in the area of advancing prayer, as also in this matter of alleged communications, no direction is preferable to probably incompetent direction

To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.

Although I often give in to my daughter, she is fully aware that I am the only one at home who will discipline her if she is naughty.

I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.

I have a good team around me and I don't feel anything is anywhere near out of my league.

Girls are really resentful to their fathers when they don't get a chance to spend time with them, but now that my daughter knows everything I say damn near will come true or damn near is what it is, she loves me for that, she respects me for it, and I feel the same way with her.

A player is someone - a guy - that messes with girls' emotions just to try and get what they want. I've been asked, 'Do you consider yourself a player?' And the answer is no. I don't think I'm anywhere near that.

I have a Bible near my bed.

'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.

I have great faith in lasers, but no one's putting one near my eye.

I'm nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.

I've met so many leaders who realize that telling your colleagues something that is on your mind is so much easier than keeping it in. Sometimes the things we make up in our heads are not nearly as big a deal as we think.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

I don't necessarily want people to know all my intimate feelings about Tracey.

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

Kissing a new hero isn't acceptable to me, especially when it's not necessary.

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.