Quotes About Trust

From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God.' 'Then who are you?' 'The personnel officer who hired God.

The prospect of sharing the rest of their lives held no dread for them. . . every word and movement between them carried their history and their future like background movement, shaping each moment even when they weren't aware of it.

I sold my brother," Valentine said, "and they paid me for it.

Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt.

I have never resisted the Lord in my life, Sister LeSueur, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

You can't leave [the children] to God when God has left them to us. - Sister Carlotta

Since I don't have actual authority over anybody, Petra, how can it possibly matter if I'm not legitimately authorized?

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

So, the whole war is because we can't talk to each other. If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

It is astonishing what can be done when people are truly loyal to each other and eager to meet each other's needs.

I'll obey you now, said Runnel. Brick laughed. Except when you think I'm wrong.

But I have these friends because I stayed with my task. So instead of dragging each other down, we're building each other up. We're not just good friends, we're friends who do each other good.

So he re-entered the prayer that he thought he had closed, and added the phrase that he had deliberately left out when he was on his knees: Thy will be done.

Maybe not a home. Maybe that won't come until later. But I believe it will come, Mar. With your brains in this operation, how could it not?" Edimar

I had forgotten the first rule of diplomacy: Russians are never more cooperative than when they are about to betray you.

When I comfort you, you'll know it. And how will I know? Miro snapped back. Because you'll be comfortable, of course.

to be deceived. You know why I am here." "Ah. I guess this means Dap filed a report.

Anton: "You're asking me?" Sister Carlotta: "God not being convenient, I ask a fellow mortal.

They came for gossip, and he gives them responsibility.

Why is it that the people who should be in authority are usually the people who don't want it, while the people who hold authority are usually the two-faced schemers who've stepped on people's backs to get it?

And no matter how well we think we know people, the fact is we're all strangers in the end.

No, he told himself honestly. I've never had real friends before. This is what it feels like. This is why people will sacrifice so many accomplishments in order to stay with their friends instead of their tasks. But I have these friends because I stayed with my task. So instead of dragging each other down, we're building each other up. We're not just good friends, we're friends who do each other good.

The leader only has as much power as his followers give him.