Quotes About Distrust

perspicaciousness into question. He'd say you wanted to see a .45 Glock in the man's hand

The louder he proclaims his honesty, the faster we count the silver.

It's hard to have faith in your fellow man when you're forced to look at some of his handiwork.

Había aprendido a no confiar demasiado en las afirmaciones de los demás, sobre todo si sus palabras les reportaban algún beneficio.

I suspected, though, she was simply mean.

LI QUAN If they ply you with expensive gifts and sweet talk, they are up to something.

All one can say is that this power will be exercised wisely by some, foolishly by others, and that among those who bear arms some will be loyal and others rebellious. [58]

I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Watch what people do, don't listen to what they say.

Every time that I take out a woman, I hear my father's voice saying, "Women love to trick men. They'll take you for all you've got if you're stupid enough to let them.

Trust is like the runt of our emotional litter; under harsh conditions, it's usually the first to die.

The experience generated powerful, lifelong fears of being hurt and betrayed. Two marriages ended in divorce because he couldn't learn to trust.

You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.

Strange," said Henry Woodhope, "where did you get this nonsense?" "From the man under the hedge. Henry, you do not listen." "And he seemed honest, did he?" "Honest? No, not particularly. He seemed, I would say, cold. Yes, 'cold' is a good word to describe him and 'hungry' another.

You can always tell when a politician has spoken from the heart: he takes it back the next day.

Gratitude is a sickness, suffered by dogs.

It was best not to ask too many questions of the Ferrets and Weasels of this world. There was less to deny when the headhunters put you on a polygraph.

She was afraid of what she called the young man's "personableness." She distrusted it for itself, and hated it as a potential threat to her house.

The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.

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.

People are smarter now. That's one thing we taught them. Don't trust anybody. Don't trust your government. Don't trust the media. Don't trust anybody over thirty.

The girls had a misguided trust in the circumcised.

I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature much less by the sentiments of love and heroism but is a system of distrust not of giving, but of taking advantage.