Quotes About Trust

Deep inside each of us is a part that mistrusts order and craves the relief of seeing the world shatter into the chaos it believes lies underneath all along.

They had been double-crossed in the act of double-crossing, which was probably what they should have expected from the start, especially knowing that the dead man at their feet was an American.

faith could only be stretched so far before people demanded an element of proof,

India returned to her kneading, but repeated under her breath, "I don't believe it, I don't believe it!

Quoted in the New York Times two days later, I called Bush's remarks a "rookie mistake." I went on: "I can understand the strategy on rapport, but it went too far . . . I think there is plenty of good reason not to trust President Putin. This is a man who was trained to lie."16 I was never invited back to brief President Bush again. Years later, during Obama's

The idea that every government official counts as all-wise and incorruptible makes no more sense than the assumption that each corporate honcho displays flawless judgment and stainless ethics.

Until you get to know them in person, anyone you correspond with online remains a stranger.

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other

My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of his flock … confident that he is leading his people the right way.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

The outcome is a result of the integrity of the process.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?" I didn't say anything.

Certainty is eaten away by the thousand and one compromises that are the currency of democracy.

Shame is a scarce commodity in politics

Whoever he said he was, thought Marsh, he was not from the immigration department, and the web that he was convinced Walsh had been weaving was beginning to unravel with disastrous and dangerous consequences.

It's so deceptively easy to get people to stop trusting their own senses. They cut you off and then put fear in you.

Sometimes even the believers forget what they believe.

You can count on your enemies," said Emilia now, "but sometimes it's the one who smiles who keeps you up at night." There

Someday, of course, she would light out on her own, following her own riverbed, and though we'd follow as long as she allowed, and though we trusted she'd come and go from our lives with regularity, she would also be a half memory [...]