Quotes About Trust

Ike was like a giant umbrella. He absorbed what was coming down from above, shielded his commanders from higher authority, and about them to fight the war without excessive second-guessing.

Eisenhower and Patton, old friends and figures crucial to the Allies' upcoming success, conferred over yet another gaffe on Patton's part that could have cost him his command. Patton's head is on Ike's shoulder in gratitude, but the scene is rescued from being completely maudlin by Eisenhower's internal question as to whether Patton wears his ever-present helmet to bed.

Rice assumed her duty was to translate Bush's instincts and intuition into policy. Instincts and intuition are a poor substitute for reasoned analysis. [...] "He was feeling his way," said Cheney.

Mama and Nathan lean on me a lot, but they give me a lot of rope, too. Maybe too much." "Maybe," I say. "I can shorten it for you.

In the next few minutes, both of them sensed the false cheerfulness that came from trying to reassure the other in the face of real doubts. But they each were still glad they ahd someone to be falsely cheerful for.

Without him nothing was done, and through him everything was done, and the king trusted him more than any other.

Anyone who has not experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all

Personally, I believe the Koran is more trustworthy than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, he said" - Jean Genet, Jean Genet in Tangier

Personally, I believe the Koran is more trustworthy than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, he said

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.

Betrayal is beautiful.

When I got to the street, I walked boldly. But I was always accompanied by an agonizing thought: the fear that honest people may be thieves who have chosen a cleverer and safer way of stealing.

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

I'll tell you," says Oliver, "when I know you better.

respected your mother, and she honors that.

The truth is not believable to someone who has not lived it in his muscles.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits

Being guided is not being manipulated. Being exploited is.