Quotes About Distrust

When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.

We came from a punk perspective—we did not want to get sucked into a corporate culture where basically you're signing a contract because you don't trust the other person to live up to their word

He had not spoken to a desirable woman who was not at some level his enemy or a whore since 1944.

bullshit sniffer set as ever to a brutally low ppm.

Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?

just because they say it doesn't make it true. After all, they're lawyers.

habérmela contado a mí primero, porque esto podría hacerte sonar como una especie de chiflado vengativo.

Everybody lies. Cops lie. Lawyers lie. Witnesses lie. The victims lie. A trial is a contest of lies. And everybody in the courtroom knows this. The judge knows this. Even the jury knows this. They come into the building knowing they will be lied to. They take their seats in the box and agree to be lied to.

the pale light coming in through the French door leading to the deck I could see who it was. "Milton. What the—" "Shut up, asshole. You surprised to see me? Did you think I was going to let them wash me down the toilet without doing something about it?" "I don't know what you're talking about. Listen, there are

I reminded myself of a simple truism—everybody lies

aquella operación, los cajones acabaron en una disposición diferente: la correcta. Bosch estaba convencido de que alguien los había sacado todos para registrarlos por debajo y por detrás y luego los había vuelto a colocar en el lugar equivocado. Después

morning when I left. I checked my car for a GPS tag and yet somehow Creighton's following me up Laurel Canyon Boulevard." "Maybe it

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney.

Personally, I would never help mankind.

I have to keep reminding myself that almost everybody is always lying.

deceivers must expect to be deceived.

He wondered, often, what it would look like if and when the shit in question hit the fan: The stock market at bottom was rigged. The icon of global capitalism was a fraud.

Lippmann had rented a private room in some restaurant and invited Eisman and his partners to what they assumed was something other than a free meal. "Even when he had an honest agenda, there was always something underneath the honest agenda," said Vinny.

They do not share the sentiment about one another: the hardest thing to do in Greece is to get one Greek to compliment another behind his back. No success of any kind is regarded without suspicion. Everyone is pretty sure everyone is cheating on his taxes, or bribing politicians, or taking bribes, or lying about the value of his real estate. And this total absence of faith in one another is self-reinforcing. The epidemic of lying and cheating

a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

The only one among them who wrestled a bit with their role—as the guys who had made a fortune betting against their own society—was Vincent Daniel. "Vinny, being from Queens, needs to see the dark side of everything," said Eisman. To

the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

Moses could have walked in the door, and if he said he came from fixed income, Vinny wouldn't have trusted him