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Quotes About Trust

What wouldn't you believe when you were four, and your mom was the manager of your so-called memories?
~ John Irving
What woman wants to hear someone say what her husband is thinking? What guy is going to be happy hearing what's on his wife's mind?
~ John Irving
Wit isn't tentative; therefore, neither is it young. Wit is one of many aspects of life and literature that is far easier to recognize onstage than in a book. My students are always missing the wit in what they read, or else they do not trust it; onstage, even an amateur actor can make anyone see what wit is.
~ John Irving
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean, make sure they know what you mean!
~ John Irving
There are times when I need to read the Thirty-seventh Psalm, over and over again. Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure: fret not thyself, else shalt thou be moved to do evil.
~ John Irving
Emma Oastler had made Jack's future her business
~ John Irving
won't they?
~ John Irving
You don't have to make a commitment or anything," Emma said. "That you're my best friend is enough of a miracle.
~ John Irving
It's what all the great agents do: they make the most incredible and illogical advice sound reasonable, they make you go ahead without fear, and that way you get it, you get more or less what you want, or you get something, anyway; at least you don't end up with nothing when you go ahead without fear, when you lunge into the darkness as if you were operating on the soundest advice in the world.
~ John Irving
And the Force? Well, it might be with him, or it might not. Kanan would get by, either way. He always had.
~ John Jackson Miller
A starship is a weapon, but it's the crew that makes it deadly -Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Storie—
~ John Jackson Miller
The only side worth saving," he said, turning toward her, "is ours?
~ John Jackson Miller
Listen, Jaye. When a man of advancing years tells you something is true, either believe him, or nod politely. The last thing you want to do is shake his faith in his omniscience. – Varner Hilts
~ John Jackson Miller
Jefferson said men are naturally divided by temperament into two classes. Those who fear and distrust ordinary people, and want to concentrate power in the hands of a small, select elite—and those who trust and cherish ordinary people, and think of them as the safest, if not always the wisest repositories of power.
~ John Jakes
Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed.
~ John Jay
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
~ John Keats
There is a comfort in throwing oneself on the charity of ones friends — 't is like the albatross sleeping on its wings.
~ John Keats
No wonder you've turned on me so savagely. I suspect that you are using me as a scapegoat for your own feelings of guilt.
~ John Kennedy Toole
What is it, Gus? A problem? Are you having a problem? That's one of your problems. You never tell me your problems.
~ John Kennedy Toole
He was nodding his head, his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. "I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you. You've already shown me and I believe you.
~ John Knowles
Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely personal reservations, letting its rocklike facts sift through and be accepted only a little at a time, only as much as he could assimilate without a sense of chaos and loss.
~ John Knowles
I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal. There was no harm in envying even your best friend a little
~ John Knowles
his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. "I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you.
~ John Knowles
Yes, he had practically saved my life. He had also practically lost it for me.
~ John Knowles