Quotes About Trust

A true friend might leave his buddy's side physically, but never mentally

Everything shall be okay in the end. If it is not okay, then it is not the end

In work relationships it is important to recognize that business and personal issues are frequently tied together. "Smart companies know that the individual's ability to create relationships" is the engine that drives value.4 Trusting each other's motives is critical to success, both in the moment and over the long haul.

I hate first dates. I made the mistake of telling my date a lie about myself, and she caught me. I didn't think she'd actually demand to see the bat cave.

It's kind of a dark little life . . . being a paranoiac, but it's also not without its comforts.

Blood is thicker than water, as people say. (But then again so is ketchup.)

Was there? Was it true? Or was it just grown-ups making you scared with their own fears?

I think it really makes a difference when you know the people that you're working with, when you develop a relationship.

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

Without remorse, you calmly thrust your knife Into each heart that shared its love with you.

When the earth opens up under your feet, be like a seed. Fall down; wait for the rain.

Waiters and escorts both know that indiscretion is a career-ending move. You reveal a secret only if you are never going back again.

Nothing to fear from a fate that was already yours, then, except, perhaps, that it would never leave you.

The animal will be tender with you, and you with it, but the animal never forgets that when what it wants for survival requires your death, it will become unafraid to kill you. And so you cannot forget this, either. It is, on reflection, good training to be a courtesan. A woman of any kind.

it felt healing to be pressed against him. As if some wound he never knew he had healed itself more each time they touched.

She said this watching my eyes as if she were testing the edge of a blade on me. And so I made sure not to flinch.

I was unsure how they fed themselves, what they would eat and drink, they were not unsure at all and this terrified me. I

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

It is very extraordinary, if the head of the money department of a country, being unprincipled enough to sacrifice his trust and his integrity, could not have contrived objects of profit sufficiently large to have engaged the co-operation of men of far greater importance than Reynolds, and with whom there could have been due safety, and should have been driven to the necessity of unkennelling such a reptile to be the instrument of his cupidity.

A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible; free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.

First. It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it may forget their obligations to their constituents, and prove unfaithful to their important trust. In this point of view, a senate, as a second branch of the legislative assembly, distinct from, and dividing the power with, a first, must be in all cases a salutary check on the government.

Men of this class, whether the favorites of a king or of a people, have in too many instances abused the confidence they possessed; and assuming the pretext of some public motive, have not scrupled to sacrifice the national tranquillity to personal advantage or personal gratification.

A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

There will be no jury to stand between the judges who are to pronounce the sentence of the law, and the party who is to receive or suffer it. The awful discretion which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished characters of the community, forbids the commitment of the trust to a small number of persons.