Quotes About Trust

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles.... Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand. Those who trust to such false quoters will often learn how contrary this transmission is to the sense and application of the original. Every transplantation has altered the fruit of the tree; every new channel, the quality of the stream in its remove from the spring-head.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

Never give up on someone you can't go a day without thinking about.

Pity him who has few foster-friends.

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does one's self.

If you don't think it's safe, it probably isn't.

He who has been stung by a scorpion is afraid of its shadow.

God did not give wings to scorpions.

If spring betrays summer, would autumn never arrive?

Possess your soul without fussing; your guardian angel does not lose half the sleep over you you think he does.

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.

How do people make it through life without a sister?

The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.

I suspected skydiving was dangerous when they asked me to sign a waiver. They confirmed my suspicions when they asked me to pay in advance.

You do not need a parachute to skydive — you only need a parachute to skydive twice.

You know you're a skydiver when you wear your rig on commercial passenger flights, just in case.

Don't be afraid of falling out of the plane, you are dressed for the occasion.

You know you're a skydiver when your friends think it's funny when you are sleeping to blow a fan in your face and set a beeper off near your ear.

That was where friendships were smelted from unrefined ore into pure metal: two girls staying up past their bedtime, painting one another's nails, trying on one another's clothes, wondering about ghosts, confiding secrets, swapping tokens of undying affection, hours of whispering in the darkness.

In his first note on the case, Dulles had written: "I had met Olson on several occasions. He was the last person I expected to commit suicide. This was the makings of a serious problem.

Somebody on board wanted to kill him. No record exists of the exact moment Robert Wilmott, captain of the Morro Castle, a cruise liner shuttling between New York and Havana, Cuba, finally came to this conclusion. But by the time the ship docked in Havana on September 4, 1934, the captain had decided that somebody on board did want to kill him.

Robert Wilmott was responsible for no small part of the Morro Castle's success. Passengers frequently made sure that he was still in command of the ship before buying a ticket. He was the perfect ship's captain for passengers who had never been on anything bigger than the ferryboat to Staten Island.

Always be wary of people who use quotes. I don't know who said that.' - Murdoc Niccals

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.