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Quotes About Trust

Love requires a different kind of courage, Andromache.
~ David Gemmell
A problem shared is a problem doubled
~ David Gemmell
Fear cannot be trusted...It exaggerates everything. It is both treacherous and dishonest.
~ David Gemmell
Someone, who when the whole world turns against you, is still standing by your side.
~ David Gemmell
I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks
~ David Gemmell
I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks - Surely it is only with friends that one can be at peace. - It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing; neither do they expect anything. Friends you can hurt, for they expect everything.
~ David Gemmell
Names are for friends, young lordling, not to be bandied about among strangers." "Strangers can become friends. In fact, all friends were at some time strangers.
~ David Gemmell
Real finance has human oversight and trusted responsibility all through it — and not automated systems that humans can't touch. Unfortunately, Libra's Bitcoin ancestry was still clear in the design of the system.
~ David Gerard
You may be on Facebook lots — but would you trust Facebook with your money? For most people, the answer was "no.
~ David Gerard
These are only the most prominent examples. Facebook's history of personal data abuse is extensive, and consistent. Given the chance, you can be sure Facebook will abuse users' data — no matter what permissions the users think they gave, and no matter the promises Facebook may have made to regulators.
~ David Gerard
In that moment, something crystallized--all the vague uninformed feelings of a lifetime suddenly snapped into focus with an enhanced clarity. Everything is tethered to everything else. With people, it isn't gravity or cables--it's money, promises, blood and feelings. The tethers are all the owrds we use to tie each other down.Or up. And we whirl around and around, just like asteroids cabled together. From Stars (anthology) Riding Janis
~ David Gerrold
You have the soul of a viper. Your mother trained you well." "I love you, too, Alexei.
~ David Gerrold
I might be fired, but I still have friends.
~ David Gerrold
presumptuous—but he's got to he with someone
~ David Gerrold
If it wasn't for Jamie staying with me all the time, I don't know what I would have done. He says it was hard because he knew what Mom wasn't telling me, but that's when Jamie and I started being friends.
~ David Gerrold
Well, it's about you and Mom. Chigger and I were talking-and well, I mean-you are kidnapping us, aren't you, Dad?
~ David Gerrold
I'd rather know I can trust you. So before you read what's in that thing, tell me a story that squares with its details and exonerate yourself in my eyes. Tell me the story you should have told the sheriff right off the bat, when it wasn't too late, when the truth might still have given you your freedom. When the truth might have done you some good.
~ David Guterson
Tell the truth,' Nels said. 'Decide to tell the truth before it's too late.
~ David Guterson
Let us so live in this trying time that when it is all over we can look one another in the eye with the knowledge that we have behaved honourably and fairly.
~ David Guterson
politicians only listened to these generals, and these generals only listened to themselves.
~ David H. Hackworth
the slightest bit of excitement in a leader is transmitted to the men. You might be afraid, but the fear gets magnified in the troops. Somebody has to keep his cool. If you're a decent leader, you don't dare lose it— for your own good. You've got to keep your unit up there doing its job.
~ David H. Hackworth
The new battalion commander had used his eyes but not his head: he'd seen overfamiliarity, but had not taken tome to think, to realize that Barney K.'s easygoing attitude with his guys came from the platoon's and its leader's mutual understanding, respect, and trust. With one order, the CO had destroyed it all, and my friend was heartbroken.
~ David H. Hackworth
The new battalion commander had used his eyes but not his head: he'd seen overfamiliarity, but had not taken time to think, to realize that Barney K.'s easygoing attitude with his guys came from the platoon's and its leader's mutual understanding, respect, and trust. With one order, the CO had destroyed it all, and my friend was heartbroken.
~ David H. Hackworth
Fig. 8.1. The Trust Equation Fig. 8.2. Trust Realms The
~ David H. Maister