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Quotes About Trust

Then comes the stiff, unnatural awkward mess of a supervised visit. Meaning that instead of a father and son spending some nice time doing something together, there's always a third person right there to be sure I don't rape the poor kid.
~ Woody Allen
I dined alone and went to sleep, keeping one eye open all night lest Milt Rosen roll over onto my side of the bed. I was prepared to let out a piercing shriek.
~ Woody Allen
ELLIOT (V.O.) (CONT'D) There's something very lovely and real about Hannah. (tossing his bathrobe aside and lying down on the bed next to Hannah, his hands crossed over his stomach) She gives me a very deep feeling of being part of something. She's a wonderful woman...and I betrayed her.
~ Woody Allen
I'm not cynical, or am I?" she said. "I think I still have most of my illusions.
~ Woody Allen
He couldn't bear the thought that she would want to go to an orgy, much less with or without him.
~ Woody Allen
Never pour the Elixir of Life as if it were an ordinary liquid. He who entrusts the secret of the dark forces to unworthy ears is making his jaws do unnecessary work and talks his tongue dry to no purpose.
~ Wu Cheng'en
If you pretend abundance when in fact you are in need, those who would aid you will not because they will either believe you to be abundant or recognize your pretense and consider you to be unworthy.
~ Wu Wei
Pasa uno tanto tiempo junto la miedo que le agarra confianza
~ Xavier Velasco
Porque hasta cuando sabes que no puedes confiar en nadie, te topas con que tienes que confiar. Confías una, dos, diez veces, hasta que claro: llega uno y te acuchilla.
~ Xavier Velasco
Confías una, dos, diez veces, hasta que claro: llega uno y te acuchilla. Pero ese día no me traicionaron; me salvaron.
~ Xavier Velasco
La cuerda floja crea un hábito que ni el matrimonio arregla.
~ Xavier Velasco
Porque hasta cuando sabes que no puedes confiar en nadie te topas con que tienes que confiar.
~ Xavier Velasco
Dime cuantas mentiras cuentas y te diré que tan esclavo eres.
~ Xavier Velasco
Cuántas veces se supone que deberías confiar? ¿En qué personas? ¿Cuántas, de cada cien, traen un puñal guardado? Cada vez que confías en alguien estás tirando dados. Puedes saber cuáles son tus probabilidades con los dados, pero no con la gente. Tiras no sabes cuántos dados, con sepa La Chingada cuántas caras.
~ Xavier Velasco
Your leader is only one man," I heard my voice say. "His strength is no more supernatural than your own, nor is his virtue, and by himself he could never preserve the good things that belong by right to everyone. To govern well, he must have your help—the help of his true, trustworthy friends. You must forever be worthy of his trust, and you must raise up true friends of your own, to help you carry your own burdens. And it is love that must bind all of us together.
~ Xenophon
Some one may say, are you not ashamed to be so taken in like a fool? Yes, I should be ashamed, if it had been an open enemy who had so deceived me. But, to my mind, when friend cheats friend, a deeper stain attaches to the perpetrator than to the victim of deceit.
~ Xenophon
You'll always be on better terms with your allies if you can secure your own provisions, and you'll increase the loyalty of your soldiers. Give them all they need, and your troops will follow you to the ends of the earth.
~ Xenophon
Because I believed, that the more I obliged him in his Necessity, the more grateful he would be in his prosperity ; tho' I now well see the contrary.
~ Xenophon
A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
~ Xenophon
You're a good friend, Apollodorus, but would you rather see me put to death justly or unjustly?
~ Xenophon
for, if it were suspected that you did not gratefully resent the benefits conferred on you by your parents, no man could believe you would be grateful for any kind actions that others might do you.
~ Xenophon
I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
~ Yann Martel
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.
~ Yann Martel
If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
~ Yann Martel