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Quotes About Trust

Once you lose someone's respect it is the hardest thing to win back
~ Christos Tsiolkas
My mind and gut are never simpatico: Every time I think somebody likes me, she doesn't; every time I think somebody doesn't like me, she does. This has never changed and I'm certain it never will.
~ Chuck Klosterman
We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture.
~ Chuck Klosterman
What you find out fairly quickly in Hollywood," Tarantino told the BBC in 1994, "is that this is a community where hardly anybody trusts their own opinion. People want people to tell them what is good. What to like, what not to like. But here I come. I'm a film geek. My opinion is everything. You can all disagree with me. I don't care.
~ Chuck Klosterman
The first moment someone calls for a revolution is usually the last moment I take them seriously.
~ Chuck Klosterman
According to the director, Primer is a movie about the relationship between risk and trust. This is true. But it also makes a concrete point about the potential purpose of time travel—it's too important to use only for money, but too dangerous to use for anything else.
~ Chuck Klosterman
The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture.
~ Chuck Missler
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Your heart is my piñata.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You can't fool people into loving you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Kids, she says. When they're little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it's just the opposite. After that, you're either a liar or a fool or a villain.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We're the culture that cried wolf.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Believe in me and die forever.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
How can you possibly believe he really loves you?" Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier's hand."You have no choice," Mr. Whittier tells her. "If you need to be loved.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There's worse that people can steal from you than money.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?' This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk