Quotes About Trust

I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

It's often the ones we love most who do us harm.

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

I call him Pops because he is my true father; my creator. And we've had a special relationship. Whenever I felt lost or needed help or guidance, I could count on Pops.

I was able to construct a world view based on intimacy, vulnerability, uncertainty and commonality.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

Taxpayers loathe bankers not for being capitalists but for being failed capitalists, who picked the public's pockets. If they had been successes, the public would not despise them.

Boggan got him to translate and heard how hairdressers in Baghdad had to report subversive remarks made by women under the driers. What was a hairdresser to do if her sensibly wary customers steered clear of politics? For how long could she keep telling the secret police that she had nothing to report, without running the risk of the spies marking her down as uncooperative?

As the costs of storing and retrieving information have collapsed, sharing expertise ought to be easy. But the cooperative approach based on openness and trust undermines the status of managers, whose wealth depends on the ability to create the impression that they have knowledge that their subordinates cannot be trusted to share.

Few liberals have the confidence to say that free speech, like sexual freedom, would not create a terrible society, because they do not trust their fellow citizens.

Don't let someone spend money who never earned it.

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.

I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It's my second or third time tripping, Emily's first, and she's understandably trepid. Awake all night, at one point I find her touching her reflection in a cruelly lit dorm bathroom, asking if she'll ever be the same. I kiss her then for the first time and whisper, No.

You only have to know that at any given moment Jesus Christ has the right of way in your life and you're in the place where God wants you. You don't have to beg for blessing. You thank Him in anticipation. It is inevitable. MAJOR IAN THOMAS

Pray About It: How often we pray for God to remove our problems when God has designed these problems to be vehicles for His strength. Whereas in the past we've prayed for days equal to our strength, today we must pray for power equal to our days. Remember today His strength will be made perfect in your weakness. Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint. OSWALD CHAMBERS

Let the timid, and tempted, and cast down, in this cloudy and dark day, be encouraged to trust in God, and to remember that "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God" (Luke 18:27).

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.

If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Baseball manager Casey Stengel once quipped, "The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.

The difference between belief and trust can be monumental. We may believe in others, but do we really trust them? To firmly trust people means putting your own successes and health in their hands.

If you get word that a co-worker is saying things about you behind your back, confront him or her on it. If an evaluation of your work is false and biased, challenge it. Doing nothing will only worsen the damage. Understand that you can't control everything, so pick your spots and stand up for what you know and believe is right. Communicate when there is a miscommunication.

Paranoia over being cheated out of one's rightful share. Along with feeling that they are not appreciated, these individuals are routinely concerned about who gets credit and who gets blame. No credit given to them is ever enough, and too much offered to a teammate is flat-out wrong. They are concerned not with the team's success, but with whether they are going to get credit for any success.