Quotes About Mistrust

All people are scum. No matter what they look like.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

we all have a tendency to mistrust each other, to be suspicious of what we don't understand.

Survival ... is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

I'm not going to do that," she said. "With my luck, the deputy that comes will be one of the assholes who did this or, at the very least, someone who sympathizes with them.

Mr. Poe meant well, but a jar of mustard probably also means well and would do a better job of keeping the Baudelaires out of danger.

Too many Americans mistrust their government. And unnecessary government secrecy feeds this mistrust.

Therese frowned, floundering in a sea without direction or gravity, in which she knew only that she could mistrust her own impulses.

If she ever had an impulse to tell Carol, the words dissolved before she began, in fear and in her usual mistrust of her own reactions, the anxiety that her reactions were like no one else's, and that therefore not even Carol could understand them.

The effect of the rupture that sin created in the relationship between the man and the woman is this: mistrust, anger, and disappointment became the standard quality of human life. Even

Writers were among my acquaintances but, as in all times, we tended to mistrust and badmouth each other, secretly resenting the others' successes and finding fault in their work. Each of us knew in his or her heart that he or she was a true artist of the word who merely happened to be commercial; the others were hacks.

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

Suffer barbaric childhood to give and receive remorselessly; civilized age learns to protect what it has, to neither give nor accept freely, to trust it's own mistrust above faith, and intriguing others above the innocent. Intrigue, after all, is rational, something the mind can sink it's teeth into, and defeat it with the good digestion of reason, a hopeless prospect for the toothless heart, and God only knows what innocence will do next.

People distrust you if you don't play the same games they do, Sonny. It's the same after you grow up.

They receded into mist, leaving me with another lesson: once mistrust has wounded it mortally, love can't be fully healed again.

And so your personality is shaped. You know too much, and this knowledge makes you wary. You grow fearful and mistrustful. The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so you learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't actually feel. And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

And so your personality is shaped. You know too much, and this knowledge makes you wary. You grow fearful and mistrustful. The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so you learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't actually feel.

Sometimes when you are in a foreign country it feels like everyone is in on a joke against you.

She thought it something of a mercy for the gullible to die young, as being too often mistaken breaks the spirit.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

When I was fifteen, I met a young man with a mantra. His mother taught it to him: 'There is only one way to handle women. Fool them, fuck them and forget them.