Quotes About Distrust

I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be 'seen through,' or, even worse, instantly hated.

Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.

The deal looks bad and smells worse.

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.

Things swept so badly that I had distrust - after 1967, let's say - of American Keynesianism. For better or worse, U.S. Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

The worst I encountered was Peter Manley talking behind me as I threw during our world championship quarter-final back in 2006.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband's prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted 'What's that wine?' dinner parties.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

American political elites feel very empowered to criticize the American intelligence community for not doing enough when they feel in danger, and as soon as we've made them feel safe again, they feel equally empowered to complain that we're doing too much.

A 'Clean Bandit' is a total bastard!

Were we ever to find ourselves living under a totalitarian regime, place no faith in the mercy of your fellow citizens.

Paranoia might leave you loveless and alone, Raoul once said, but it'll keep you alive. Paranoia is your best friend.

Our smiles mostly for each other, and every stranger a possible demon or bear, till they proved otherwise

The state prosecutor forced a smile, but it didn't extend to his eyes. Ira knew that the difference between an honest smile and the vacant facial expression of an artificial grin lay in the gaze. Faust may have been smiling, but the eyes behind his glasses were ice cold. And that could only mean one thing - that everything he was about to say was a lie

Hüte dich vor Männern mit Hundegesichtern. Sie wedeln nur so lange mit dem Schwanz, bis sie dich besprungen haben.

Why is it that all men like to lie?

She honestly didn't know what was worse: living her life in the dream world, or living in a world where everyone lied to her.

La paranoia —que para mí es un estado de acceso a la verdad— se ponía a descascararlo todo con sus garritas de hurón: no podía evitarlo.

Guard yourself from lying; there is he who deceives and there is he who is deceived.