Quotes About Trust

it is impossible to cure a political prostitute from whoring'.

Richard Turner

Can you stand?" Waabooz asked. "Yes," Buffalo said. "Why?" "If you stand there calmly you won't sink any farther and we can work together to get you out of there." "Are you certain?" Buffalo asked. "I feel the bog pull at me even now." "I am not certain," Waabooz said. "But Trust does not require certainty.

Weh! Weh! Süssestes Weib! Du traurigste aller Getreuen! Gegen dich wütet in Waffen die Welt: und ich, dem du einzig vertraut, für den du ihr einzig getrotzt, mit meinem Schutz nicht soll ich dich schirmen, die Kühne verraten im Kampf? Ha, Schande ihm, der das Schwert mir schuf, beschied er mir Schimpf für Sieg! Muss ich denn fallen, nicht fahr' ich nach Walhall: Hella halte mich fest!

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

It is a folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

These setbacks depleted liberal confidence in both Grant and the U.S. Treasury Department and made them even more enamored of the gold standard. Already Anglophiles, they tended to trust the Bank of England more than the secretary of the treasury.

You can't trust the government to do anything right-except, of course, to conspire and cover up. Then it becomes diabolically efficient. The very people who are wildest for government conspiracies are often the same people who believe the government is incapable of delivering the mail efficiently.

As a queen sits down, knowing that a chair will be there, Or a general raises his hand and is given the field-glasses, Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.

the danger comes when we allow the good we have found in someone to blind us to their darker side

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

So at last when I believed Christianity was dead, I said, "Even so, I will believe in it, and I will weep at its tomb until it rises again, as it surely will.

Even the best of Christians are troubled by the question, "Why does an almighty God send, or at least allow, suffering?" When you are nagged by thoughts like this, say to yourself, "I am still in elementary school. When I graduate from the university of Christian life, I will understand His ways better and doubts will cease.

Martin Luther, when he walked in the woods, used to raise his hat to the birds and say, 'Good morning, theologians—you wake and sing, but I, old fool, know less than you and worry over everything, instead of simply trusting in the heavenly Father's care.

Did I believe in God? Now the test had come. I was alone. There was no salary to earn, no golden opinions to consider. God offered me only suffering—would I continue to love Him?

They knew what forgiveness was; they were willing to take him for better or worse; they loved him.

How could you ever learn to trust the things you made up?

And they fell asleep like children.

And all because, in a sentimentally lonely time long ago, she had found it easy and agreeable to believe whatever this one particular boy felt like saying, and to repay him for that pleasure by telling easy, agreeable lies of her own, until each was saying what the other most wanted to hear...

time and again they read the promise of failure in each other's eyes

I seem to have to lost confidence in just about everything else. I've come to believe that only a very, very few matters in the world can ever be trusted to make sense.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.