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Quotes About Trust

We were in the Safeway parking lot. I couldn't find my cigarettes. You said, "Hurry up!" but I was worried there would be a hold-up and we would be stuck in a hostage situation, hiding behind the frozen meats, with nothing to smoke for hours. You said "Don't be silly," so I followed you into the store. We were thumping the melons when I heard somebody say, "Nobody move!" I leaned over and whispered in your ear, "I told you so.
~ Richard Siken
And no one can ever figure out what you want, and you won't tell them, and you realize the person who loves you isn't the one you thought it would be, and you don't trust him to love you in a way you would enjoy.
~ Richard Siken
You thought if you handed over your body he'd do something interesting.
~ Richard Siken
Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other.
~ Richard Siken
All night I stretched my arms across him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing with all my skin and bone Please keep him safe. Let him lay his head on my chest and we will be like sailors, swimming in the sound of it, dashed to pieces.
~ Richard Siken
There should be just one safe place in the world
~ Richard Siken
There should be just one safe place in the world, I mean this world. People get hurt here.
~ Richard Siken
I want to tell you this story without having to confess anything
~ Richard Siken
Let's say you're driving down the road with your eyes closed but my eyes are also closed.
~ Richard Siken
Imagine this: You're pulling the car over. Somebody's waiting. You're going to die in your best friend's arms. And you play along because it's funny, because it's written down, you've memorized it, it's all you know. I say the phrases that keep it all going, and everybody plays along. Imagine: Someone's pulling a gun, and you're jumping into the middle of it. You didn't think you'd feel this way.
~ Richard Siken
If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning." Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said.
~ Richard Stark
Hemingway's judgment on people, that the competent guy does it on his own and the incompetents lean on each other." In
~ Richard Stark
A little in drink, but at all times yr faithful husband.
~ Richard Steele
Trust is a foundation of leadership. We trust that a leader is honest, able, and has a vision of where to go. But trust operates on an even deeper level. We trust that a leader is who he appears to be, that the public person and the private one are the same.
~ Richard Stengel
There is nothing beneath a leader.
~ Richard Stengel
He believes that, just as pretending to be brave can lead to acts of real bravery, seeing the good in other people improves the chances that they will reveal their better selves.
~ Richard Stengel
It's no big deal for us to be out of each other's company for a couple of days. We've done it before. We're friends and lovers, not Siamese twins.
~ Richard Stevenson
No need to worry. Everything's under control." "It is?" "Not my control, but somebody's.
~ Richard Stevenson
In the end, everybody gay in Albany knows everybody gay in Albany. Eventually you always end up in the bed you started out in. I mean, this is the Hudson Valley, Newell, not West Hollywood. You can do it.
~ Richard Stevenson
If we leave it to professionals themselves to reinvent their workplace, are we asking the rabbits to guard the lettuce?
~ Richard Susskind
Put bluntly, professionals tend not to like sharing what they know with other professionals.
~ Richard Susskind
When the sensation that I am in control of my life and must make it happen ends, then life is simply lived and relaxation takes place. There is a sense of ease with whatever is the case and an end to grasping for what might be.
~ Richard Sylvester
The bad news is that you're in free fall and there's nothing to hold on to. The good news is that there's no ground to hit.
~ Richard Sylvester
The important thing is to recognize that when they want to do something on their own, it's not a rejection of you, it's simply an affirmation of who they are. It's their way of touching base and staying happy and if you don't let them do it, you'll lose the person you love.
~ Richard Templar