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Quotes About Trust

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?
~ John Steinbeck
Ain't many guys travel around together," he mused. "I don't know why. Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
~ John Steinbeck
I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.
~ John Steinbeck
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn't return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.
~ John Steinbeck
You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.
~ John Steinbeck
If you want to keep a friend, never test him.
~ John Steinbeck
She knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near.
~ John Steinbeck
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.
~ John Steinbeck
What pillow can one have like a good conscience?
~ John Steinbeck
There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.
~ John Steinbeck
I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of the truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agonyof a lie is neverlost. That's a running sore
~ John Steinbeck
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie
~ John Steinbeck
A dog...is a bond between strangers.
~ John Steinbeck
Thou knowest not what bitches women are, Danny said wisely. I do know, said Pilon. Thou knowest not. I do know. Liar.
~ John Steinbeck
All we got is the family unbroke.
~ John Steinbeck
Lanser said, There are no peaceful people, when will you learn it? There are no friendly people, can't you understand that?
~ John Steinbeck
I've given you everything a friend can give, Joe Saul-even contempt, and that's the hardest thing of all.
~ John Steinbeck
He's got a can up there,' Richard said.
~ John Steinbeck
When I was a kid my ol' man give me a haltered heifer an' says take her down an git her serviced. An' the fella says, I done it, an' ever' time since then when I hear a business man talkin' about service, I wonder who's gettin' screwed.
~ John Steinbeck
It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation; he had no resistance to it at all.
~ John Steinbeck
There's no thing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of a postage stamp.
~ John Steinbeck
Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure—never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?
~ John Steinbeck
You keep out of my bed," said Danny, for he knew that Joe Portagee had come to stay. The way he sat in a chair and crossed his knees had an appearance of permanence.
~ John Steinbeck
A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.
~ John Steinbeck