Quotes About Trust

he was always circumspect . . . and always careful to avoid any relationship which could ever become more than friendship. But

So in this case, knowing that you're watching our backs, as it were, will probably be worth more to both of us then having you actually at the table.

economies depend a lot more on perceptions than realities.

wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen.

When surrounded by miracles, it is not proper to doubt the will of the Most High God.

While love is celebrated, we are assured that a satisfying sexual encounter does not require love. If the Shirelles tune were written today, the singer would likely have to lower the bar down to "Will You Respect Me Tomorrow"—if even that.

Bad weather friends were as undependable as fair weather friends in a crisis, the relationship in both cases being dictated by conditions of fortune instead of mutual tastes.

This is what e-mail is: either a cowardly way for people to ask favors of you that they would never ask in person, or a way for people to pretend they are having a friendship with you when they really are not.

We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves

Want a strong, solid relationship that is willing to go the distance? Get to know your running shoes.

I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.

If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.

Now take my hand and hold it tight. I will not fail you here tonight, For failing you, I fail myself And place my soul upon a shelf In Hell's library without light. I will not fail you here tonight.

I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

Listen, child—if you're at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he'll be the last one you'd suspect.

I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.

Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations. And because your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will, if you entertain too much anxiety about too many things, if you place no trust in providence, what you fear will more often come to pass. We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.

Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.

You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.

Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.

Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline. I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session.

People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.

This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith.