Quotes About Trust

I am advising you in this matter not only as your chief of finance, but as a woman who would still be married to her husbands if they had looked at her the way you have looked at me here today.

You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out - Murray (WN 285).

You don't believe in heaven? A nun?' 'If you don't, why should I?' 'If you did, maybe I would.' 'If I did, you would not have to.

It was amazing how often kind-looking people turned out to be crazy. He wondered gravely whether things had reached such bad state that only crazy people attempted commonplace acts of kindness, that the crazy and the kind were one and the same.

I know it's thankless to be sensible in the face of someone's primitive distrust.

Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.

He was waiting for a man with a knife to come out of a doorway at him. All this time, he told me, he had been trying to steal death from her body. By confronting it himself, he would keep it away from her.

There is another kind of belief, a second force, insecure, untrusting, a faith that is spring-fed by the things we fear in the night.

There's a certain man, an archetype, he's a model of dependability for his male friends, all the things a friend should be, an ally and confidant, lends money, gives advice, loyal and so on, but sheer hell on women. Living breathing hell. The closer a woman gets, the clearer it becomes to him that she is not one of his male friends. And the more awful it becomes for her. This is Keith. This is the man you're going to marry.

If your child thinks you're guilty of something, right or wrong, then you're guilty.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

There is a thing about the trust of a dog that makes up for a lot of heartache we take in this life.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one's knowledge is less secure than your own.

Love helps us develop an identity secure enough to allow itself to be placed in another's care and protection.

You're more than a fair-weather friend - you're a true enemy.

The look was one of solemn compassion. It was a look I did not necessarily trust, believing it had little to do with pity or love or sadness. I recognized it in fact as something else completely. The adolescent female's tenderest form of condescension.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation. There must be something in family life that generates factual error.

This was the key it seemed to us. Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.

He reached across the table and touched her arm as he always did when he thought he might have said something wrong or cut her off. Don't listen to what I say. Trust my hands, my touch.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one's knowledge is less secure than your own.

What people in an exodus fear most immediately is that those in positions of authority will long since have fled, leaving us

The thing that hovers over every secret is betrayal.

Once I almost asked her to put on legwarmers before we made love. But it seemed a request more deeply rooted in pathos than in aberrant sexuality and I thought it might make her suspect that something was wrong.

The son of a bitch believes.