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Quotes About Mistrust

I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better. I guess I was a philosophical child.
~ Mara Wilson
People who live in transparent bodies shouldn't be so suspicious.
~ Curt Siodmak
I wouldn't trust you if you were the last life raft leaving the Titanic."-max
~ James Patterson
when there is a bit mistrust, jealousy will arise and ended with misunderstanding
~ Tun Teja
The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise.
~ Pat Tillman
During my career, I would encounter numerous situations in which parties found themselves full of mistrust and anger, where it seemed that all doors had been closed. Ben-Gurion had shown me that listening is not just a key element of good leadership, it is the key, the means to unlock doors that have been slammed shut by bitter dispute and resignation.
~ Shimon Peres
Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.
~ Shirley Jackson
Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
~ Salman Rushdie
I knew I was given to dramatic overstatement, or was known to waffle about repetitiously. To further complicate matters, I was sincere. Sincerity badly stated elicits mistrust.
~ Maya Angelou
Cómo podía seguir creyendo en la promesa del amor cuando, dondequiera que mirase, la seducción del poder, el pánico y el miedo parecían más fuertes que la voluntad de amar?
~ bell hooks
The trouble, in fact, is a difficult one to deal with, since it is inflamed alike by sympathy and by lack of sympathy. The person inclined to persecution mania, when he finds a hard-luck story believed, will embellish it until he reaches the frontier of credibility; when, on the other hand, he finds it disbelieved, he has merely another example of the peculiar hard-heartedness of mankind towards himself.
~ Bertrand Russell
It's hard to have faith in your fellow man when you're forced to look at some of his handiwork.
~ Sue Grafton
His father's general mistrust of the future carried through to his thoughts on women. Like success, women would inevitably turn on you someday. He had a suspicion of women that bordered on paranoia. His son internalized these views as well.
~ Susan Forward
That was the thing I hated, that I'd made such a lousy choice. But I didn't. You set out to convince me you were exactly what I was looking for. I had no reason to mistrust you. You lied, I didn't.
~ Susan Mallery
There was nothing like working law enforcement for a few years to give you a jaded view of human nature. No matter how well you thought you knew someone, no one ever entirely knew anyone else.
~ Josh Lanyon
La falta de fe en los hombres, el mezquino instinto que los impulsaba a buscar garantías, aun en la caridad.
~ Juan Carlos Onetti
You don't want to be innocent in the world of 'Game of Thrones.'
~ Sophie Turner
It's grown people who always believe the worst
~ Harper Lee
Conceived in mistrust, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created evil.
~ Harper Lee
Cynical, hell. I'm a healthy old man with a constitutional mistrust of paternalism and government in large doses.
~ Harper Lee
Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone.
~ Haruki Murakami
Jules always told me not to tell people your business, not to tell them your past. He said to keep them guessing. He said that once a person knew all there was to know about you, they'd take advantage of you. Trust nobody, he'd told me over and over. In a way, I'd kept his advice up until just then. I was stoned and felt like sharing all my shit with the whole world. I wanted to be taken advantage of.
~ Heather O'Neill
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
~ Helen Keller
Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It's unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you for granted that we tend to protect ourselves legally. That's why I don't read them as, if I read them, I will go soft. To me, the human relationship is far more important than the professional bond I share with anyone.
~ Karan Johar