Quotes About Trust

I propose another explanation: The reason so many Americans have become alienated from government since the poll of 1964 is that government really has become more incompetent and really has become alienated from the public it is supposed to serve. Political cycles and political fashion have nothing to do with it. American government isn't what it used to be.

My voice isn't authentically me without Catherine's help.

The relationship of marriage to happiness is simple as can be. There's hardly anything better than a good marriage for promoting happiness and nothing worse than a bad one.

No one should be allowed to work in the West Wing of the White House who has not suffered a major disappointment in life... the responsibility of working there was too great... to be entrusted to people who weren't painfully aware of how badly things can go wrong.

Tel est le sort facheux de tout livre preté - souvent il est perdu, toujours il est gaté

In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a scientist, or a preacher, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert.

Nevertheless, four years later, at the end of August 2004, a Zogby poll discovered the critical fact that 57 percent of the undecided voters in that year's election would rather have a beer with George Bush than with John Kerry. The question was odd enough on its face, but a nation to which it would matter is odder still. Be honest. Consider all the people with whom you've tossed back a beer. How many of them would you trust with nuclear launch codes?

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

When you love, you entrust to that person your sense of your own worth, and if that person throws you aside, you believe profoundly and utterly that it is because you are worthless. That is a kind of death.

We only value ourselves as others value us, for it might be said that we hold ourselves in trust for others.

There are people who invite betrayal. They are demanding towards themselves and don't realize how hard they are on other people. They make it difficult for others not to fail them. And in some cases they even take a grim pleasure from being let down.

challenging an expert and questioning his expertise is the lifebloodof our legal system. . . . It is the only way a judge or jury can decide whom to trust."1

There is no generosity in women. They want everything coming in and nothing going out. They show no trust. Lord God, how they hate to pay you! They will get the work of two men out of you and I guess they would beat you with whips if they were able to. No sir, not me. Never. A man will not work for a woman, not unless he has clabber for brains.

A less sensitive horse was found to serve.

She took him by the ears and blew into his nostrils to give him a start, then looked into his eyes to see what she had surprised there.

Webster Spooner carried my bag upstairs and showed me to my room. He said he would keep an eye on the car. I didn't see how he was going to do that from his box. I knew he was a sound sleeper. The woman Ruth had almost had to kill him to get him awake.

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

We worked in silence. One thing I liked about the cook was that he knew when to shut up even when he was mubblefubbled and dying to talk. Occasionally, I felt his eyes, like fishhooks, try to catch mine as we squeezed past one another in the narrow galley, but he kept his thoughts untongued. Personally, I was too pitchkettled to trust my own speech.

We are to learn to understand ourselves now as those who have been placed on the way and no longer can do anything other than walk in it." —MEDITATING ON THE WORD

The Christian perceives in suffering a temptation of Satan to separate him from God." —TEMPTATION

Meditation If Christ would not be for us, who then would be?

Faith stakes everything on the faithfulness of God." —NO RUSTY SWORDS