Quotes About Trust

I don't like taking from anyone. I'd rather be a giver, though not for any worthy reason. It's about control, obviously. If I give, I control; if I take, I am controlled. If someone offers me something for free I am at once suspicious.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.

I will even not rant about treachery. I was brought up in a sea of treachery and deceit and betrayal. I swam in it like perch in the Nile. I am completely at home in it. I shall not drown.

The spiritual director has the double task of holding up the demands of absolute responsibility and the promise of absolute forgiveness.

Margaret Heffernan

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Philip would not be afraid to die. But to live; to take over the mastery of more than half the world; to make swift decisions in the heat of action; to break the power of his arrogant nobles and then seem to make friends with them, while always distrusting them; to trust no one, depend on no one, to listen to advice and take none of it - yes, Philip was afraid to live.

Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.

IF YOU BELIEVE THE DOCTORS," Salisbury once remarked, "nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.

The French would do whatever it took to get Britain to commit itself. In 1909 they produced a carefully faked document, said to have been discovered when a French commercial traveler picked up the wrong bag on a train, which purported to show Germany's invasion plans for Britain.

All right," said Eden. "After all, we've got to hide somewhere. And even if they move on a bit faster than we can, they'll still leave signs, won't they? "Yes, they'll drip blood and leave echoes of people laughing," said Timon in a dark voice. Eden looked at him apprehensively. But then Timon laughed himself. "Joking! Joking! Only joking!" he cried, and Eden nodded, echoing his laughter rather uncertainly.

You won't forget that," Claire assured her. "I like things written down," Tabitha mumbled. "Then you've got them for good.

The new breed of consumer is not as trusting, as loyal, or as malleable as those of the past.

Chi ti ama c'è sempre, c'è prima di te, prima di conoscerti

Halte du ein Ende des Fadens, mit dem anderen in der Hand wandere ich durch die Welt. Und falls ich mich verlaufe, meine Mama, ziehe.

Piangere insieme, per una coppia, è un minuscolo, emblematico accadimento... è il respiro dell'altro che crepa nella tua gola.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.