Quotes About Distrust

He never understood when she said that if she went to a doctor, the doctor would only invent a disease that would explain why he couldn't help her.

Thank you for watching over her, you piece of shit. Thanks for that, if nothing else." She backed away, repulsed by the thing that had once been a man, or had at least called itself a man.

I trust no one totally.

I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

I'm with the federal government, Drummond, Trust me is another way of saying I'm lying.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

I have no relish for puritans either in religion or politics, who are pushing for principles to an extreme, and overturning everything that stands in the way of their own zealous career…. I always distrust the soundness of political councils that are accompanied by acrimonious and disparaging attacks upon any great class of our fellow citizens.

Debo aprender a tener fe, pero también a confiar en la gente. No lo hago. Creo que todo el mundo trata de hacerme daño.

Believe it when you see it. Believe it when a twelve-year-old rolls a grenade into the room.

Fear and love might leave a man complacent, but jealousy will always get him out of the van.

I have no idea,' he said, and that's another thing I'll put in my arsonist's guide: be wary of a man who says, 'I have no idea,' when asked why his wife doesn't like something he's done, which of course is just another way of saying be wary of men in general.

It was only after Caroline had admitted lying to me, and only after she'd made me admit that I'd lied to her, were we both fully ready to believe each other. To quote John Calvin one last time, "Not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before unwilling to believe.

Under contract!" she shouted. "Under contract!" Dawn sounded so happy, and I thought of my mother, who always distrusted loud public expressions of happiness. "Those who loudly insist on their happiness are rarely happy." Those were my mother's words. But Dawn's chanting of "Under contract!" made me also think of these words by John Calvin: "What shall we then say of chanting, which fills the ears with nothing but an empty sound?

A house built on lies has a weak foundation.

I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!

Be cautious whom you trust. — Don't easily trust anyone on this earth because there are all kinds.

Post-9/11 surveillance has caused writers to self-censor. They avoid writing about and researching certain subjects; they're careful about communicating with sources, colleagues, or friends abroad.

Better a crook you know than one you don't.

If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die.

Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night.

What is his basic premise? That everyone on the Caine is a liar, a traitor, and a funk-off, so that the ship can only function if he constantly nags and spies and threatens and screeches and hands out draconic punishments. Now, how do you go about proving that his premise is wrong?" "You

There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through.

not even if you speak of Agamemnon

I don't like either party. I believe even the best politicians can be self-serving hypocrites.