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Quotes About Trust

After she left everything fell apart. No Jew was safe. There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we couldn't fathom them we failed to believe them, until we had no choice and it was too late. p 8
~ Nicole Krauss
It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.
~ Nicole Krauss
By heart, this is not an expression I use lightly. My heart is weak and unreliable.
~ Nicole Krauss
The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.
~ Nicole Krauss
She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the first frost hung their waterlogged heads.
~ Nicole Krauss
He trusted her because she cared for him and there was no one else.
~ Nicole Krauss
Es mejor que sea un secreto. —¿Por qué? —Porque así no podrán quitárnoslo".
~ Nicole Krauss
It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....
~ Nicole Richie
True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
~ Nicole Richie
I have really good instincts about friends.
~ Nicole Richie
It's hard to tell you has your back from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.
~ Nicole Richie
It was OK to need people; she was learning that. You just had to be careful.
~ Nicole Richie
He who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against
~ Nicoló Machiavelli
There is no other way of guarding against adulation, than to make people understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth. On the other hand, when everyone feels at liberty to tell you the truth, they will be apt to be lacking in respect to you.
~ Nicoló Machiavelli
As a general thing anyone who is not your friend will advise neutrality while anyone who is your friend will ask you to join him, weapon in hand.
~ Nicoló Machiavelli
Thus it will always happen that he who is not your friend will demand your neutrality, whilst he who is your friend will entreat you to declare yourself with arms.
~ Nicoló Machiavelli
He who is the cause of another's greatness is himself undone, since he must work either by address or force, each of which excites distrust in the person raised to power.
~ Nicoló Machiavelli
If a prince holds on to his state by means of mercenary armies, he will never be stable or secure.
~ Nicoló Machiavelli
Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me.
~ Nietzsche
And I thought -- when you're a half-hour late, and your friends think you're in jail, it's probably a sign you steal too much.
~ Nigel Davis
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
If the people believe there's an imaginary river out there, you don't tell them there's no river there. You build an imaginary bridge over the imaginary river
~ Nikita Khrushchev
You stuck listening devices all over the dacha--even in the bathroom. You spend the people's money to eavesdrop on my farts.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
i move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
~ Nikki Giovanni