Quotes About Trust

John Patrick Shanley

It occurred to me that everything I was doing in Indonesia was more like a game than reality. It was as though we were playing a game of poker. We kept our cards hidden. We could not trust each other or count on the reliability of the information we shared. Yet, this game was deadly serious, and its outcome would impact millions of lives for decades to come.

Never believe governments,' she wrote, 'not any of them, not a word they say; keep an untrusting eye on all they do.

All of that is far beyond my ability to understand it, though I have no trouble whatsoever in believing it. After all, if understanding were essential to belief, more people would fish on Sunday.

Alexander Morris, lieutenant governor of Manitoba in the 1870s and chief treaty negotiator: "[I wish] to take the Ojibwa by the hand and never let go your hand." We

Alliances are based upon mutual need, not love

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

DDT stood for Dangerous Darrell Thomas. Thomas had given himself the name when he was riding with a motorcycle club and was interviewed for a public radio magazine. The magazine writer got it wrong, though, and referred to him as TDT--Terrible Darrell Thompson--which lost something of its intent when expressed as initials; and since the writer got the last name wrong, too, Thomas never again trusted the media.

THE EXCHANGE KEPT LUCAS warm all the way out to the car. He'd jump off a high building before he betrayed Weather, but a little extracurricular flirtation kept the blood circulating; not that all of it went to the brain.

There was an old joke about a small town: a real small town meant that you didn't have to use the turn signals on your car, because anybody behind you already knew where you were going…

I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having its motives questioned.

here. Nobody's

She made a moue, then said, "There's one exception. If he is, in fact, in love with Ms. Grant, he might take one for her . . . if she's involved. If he thinks Carver acted alone, he might also turn on Carver. Not because he wanted to, but to protect Ms. Grant.

Izzy believed in redundancy.

How many people have figured out that if you lie enough, and loud enough, people will start to believe?

Would you trust a bomb to a company called 'Oops'?

Don't get your honey where you get your money

Lucas glanced at him and said, with a grin, "Bell is sometimes too social . . . if you know what I mean." "He talks too much," Robertson said. "But he's a good guy," Lucas said. "Yeah, he is," Robertson said. He leaned back in the seat and put his feet up on the dash, caught himself and said, "Whoops. Sorry about that.

a political line that sounds like the party's. I thought of you and your boys, first thing. A few other people

Good," Lucas said. "And hey—relax. Gonna be all right." "No, it won't," she said. "I can almost guarantee that whatever it is, it won't be all right.

Thanks, Alice," Grant said, and to Lucas, "I don't like you, and I suspect you don't like me, but try to be fair. Don't stick yourself into this campaign. Don't sabotage me." "I'm not trying—" "Whether you're trying or not, that's the effect," Grant said. "Wait a week or ten days, let the election take place, then do your worst. But give me a chance. I've worked very hard for it.

When it comes to being around women, I wouldn't trust that guy further than I could spit a Norwegian rat," Lucas had grumbled.

Joe, you're thinking in slogans," Lucas said. "You don't talk to cops, you don't inform on anybody, you don't respond to threats. You've got to listen to what I'm saying. This isn't make-believe. This isn't political bullshit, or a TV show—this is a real thing.

The more he worked around the PPPI, the more he got the feeling that he was onto something. People were lying to him, misdirecting him. He couldn't exactly put a finger on why he thought that, but he'd learned the hard way not to ignore even unsupported intuition.