Quotes About Trust

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?)

God's will is not an itinerary but an attitude.

I am thrilled that I can lend him something and never worry about its return since its life in the cloud totally absolves us of all the guilty lender/borrower feeling of when should I ask for it back.

The community of Fire Island is such that you take your place in it for granted, trust that no matter what happens or who it happens with, you will find your way back.

Other major world religions are still centered in the same general geographic area from which they originated except for Christianity. Even more intriguing, the center of Christian growth continues to move. Why? This author suggests that Christian principles bring prosperity but then the prosperity brings a temptation to chase stability and respectability. Thus, Christian growth moves to an area where people are desperate enough to trust Christ alone.

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.

For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.

for your 'transactions,' as you call them, is derived from the

can only conclude that the appearance of age and order in stratigraphic successions is an elaborate ruse, part of a great cosmic charade set up to trap the unfaithful. What sort of God would do that? One who can be petty and vengeful, who may love His creation but doesn't trust it. A God, in other words, much like ourselves. In his zeal to know the mind of God, the creationist finds only a mirror.

When you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you.

Now of all the bonds between homosexual friends, none was greater than that between friends who danced together. The friend you danced with, when you had no lover, was the most important person in your life; and for people who went without lovers for years, that was all they had.

If your friends don't want your boyfriend, what's the point?

I never knew how he was going to depress me next.

you'll have to forgive me, darling, I am old-fashioned, I believe in General Motors and the clarity of the gods . . .

The amount of surprise you feel when something goes wrong is directly proportional to the amount of trust and faith you have in the code being run.

In short, Vietnam had demonstrated that when it came to deciding when to go to war and how to fight, civilians were not to be trusted.

Otherwise acutely wary of having their pockets picked, Americans count on men and women in uniform to do the right thing in the right way for the right reasons.

The Obsidian Order?" I asked. "What do you know about us?" "Nothing." "That's a good start.

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

Trust me: I entertain Joe Six-Pack 30 weekends a year. I don't really think that I'm an elitist.

I trust my electors. I see them in weekly meetings. I'm their advocate, I'm there to take up their case. I'm not there to decide whether they've got a good case or a bad case. And I think that if you trust people, they're more likely to trust you back.

If you run a business, and I see F1 as a business, if you have to go back every five weeks saying 'oh, I need another two million', it gets old pretty quick. Then the trust is lost.

When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.