Quotes About Distrust

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

Lamia was not sure whether she liked Leyla. She was too quiet, too knowing, her eyes were always probing, she felt, and she was clearly a bad influence on Tala, enticing her to museums and libraries when she should be shopping.

What we did see was that jealousy is fear: it can corrode even if quite baseless.

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs.

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a view of the American character as that of any critic in our history.

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

I dated a guy who played bad guys in movies all the time, and I think he was just a bad guy.

We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.

My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.

When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

Would she never learn not to trust any man—at least not with her emotions?

She did not wish the girl to be beguiled by such a practiced and heartless charmer.

everyone lies.

What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hungry for it? Failed idealism, he suspected. We disappoint ourselves and then look around for other failures to convince ourselves: it's not just me. (15)

It wasn't in John Candotti's nature to be suspicious of motives. There were people who loved to play organizational chess, to pit one person against another, to maneuver and plot and anticipate everyone else's next three moves, but John had no talent for the game

Maybe it's different in Georgia," Wyatt said. "Out here, pretty much anything in the newspaper is a cheat or a lie.

What does a man have to do to be taken at his word in this town? Do I have to shoot someone? Because I am making a list!

Mary Gaitskill

Very little," Ash said honestly. "I'd believe very little you told me." "Because I'm a traitor, in your eyes?" "No," she said. "Because you're a traitor in your eyes.