Quotes About Trust

Those once bitten by a snake fear even a twisted rope.

Life showed itself to me in different colors after I had once read Turgenev; it became more serious, more awful, and with mystical responsibilities I had not known before. My gay American horizons were bathed in the vast melancholy of the Slav, patient, agnostic, trustful.

David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character.

All love is lost but upon God alone.

Politicians need citizens who will permit them to behave reasonably.

If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when the principles of experience need to be modified, when hope and trust and instinct claim a share with prudence in the guidance of affairs when, in truth, to dare is the highest wisdom.

[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

I would sooner be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand members of the faculty of Harvard.

One thing the young were sure of; they would never again place their fate in the hands of an older generation.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.

Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

Under all this lies the familiar logical fallacy, never expressed, but really the point of the whole, that we shall get perfect happiness if we put ourselves in the hands of the world-reformer. We

Is the CEO allocating capital in a rational way that will enhance the company's long-term value? Is the company underpaying its employees, mistreating its suppliers, violating its customers' trust, or engaging in any other shortsighted behavior that could jeopardize its eventual greatness?