Quotes About Trust

a damn about us. We don't have to sit-in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us." Lennie broke in. "But not us! An' why? Because . . . . because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why." He laughed delightedly. "Go on now, George!

Will said, Are we partners? yes sir yes Will yes Will How soon can you get $5000? by next Wednesday shake Solemnly the stout man and the lean dark boy shook hands. Will, still holding Cals hand said Now were partners.

Slim smiled wryly. He knelt down beside Curley. "You got your senses in hand enough to listen?" he asked. Curley nodded.

Goddam it, whenever a person wants reassurance he tells a friend to think what he wants to be true. It's like asking a waiter what's good tonight.

Adam asked, "Do you know where your brother is?" "No, I don't," said Cal. "Weren't you with him at all?" "No." "He hasn't been home for two nights. Where is he?" "How do I know?" said Cal. "Am I supposed to look after him?

She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall.

most readers responded to the "surface story," trusting the tale rather than the teller. It is indeed this surface story that is the source of the novel's power

Her faith is a mountain, and you, my son, haven't even got a shovel yet.

Thank you for wanting to honor me with the truth, my son. It's not clever but it's more permanent.

Cathy had the one quality required of a great and successful criminal: she trusted no one, confided in no one. Her self was an island.

Y a pas beaucoup de gars qui voyagent ensemble, dit-il d'un ton rêveur. J'sais pas pourquoi. Peut-être que les gens ont peur les uns des autres, dans ce sacré monde. - C'est bien plus agréable de voyager avec quelqu'un qu'on connaît, dit George.

You cannot cut the ground from under a man and expect him to act normally.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Lennie said, I thought you was mad at me, George. No, said George. No, Lennie, I ain't mad. I never been mad, and I ain' now. That's a thing I want ya to know.

It wasn't my fault. I'm innocent. Why won't these dogs believe me?

I noticed that. And if you ever lay your head on my back again while your riding bitch I'll throw you into traffic. ~Woody Stevens - John Travolta - Wild Hogs

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

He had mistaken the two of them for one and entrusted to her this ghost of his alone. A mistake married people make.

A company of believers is like a prison full of criminals; their intimacy and solidarity is based on what they can least justify about themselves.

The assurance from the dictionary had melted in the night.

But, far from feeling Stavros as one of the enemy camp, he counts on him to keep this madwoman, his wife, under control. Through her body, they have become brothers.

It is crucial to realize that your ability to form strong and loving bonds can betray you if you do not intentionally pace a new relationship.

If your partner tells you about getting angry at a coworker and biting that person's head off, then you ought to wonder when that same attitude will be aimed at you.