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Quotes About Distrust

How could you ever think you knew a person? Did everyone lie?
~ Cathy Kelly
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
~ Gertrude Stein
I don't trust words. I trust pictures.
~ Gilles Peress
The ways in which women nth love and support one another, and mistrust and betray and undermine one another, may be the most complex thing in the universe.
~ Gina Frangello
The ways in which women both love and support one another, and mistrust and betray and undermine one another, may be the most complex thing in the universe.
~ Gina Frangello
Oggi, si dà più credito alla parola di un farabutto anonimo che a quella di un uomo che ha lavorato onestamente tutta la vita.
~ Giovannino Guareschi
Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.
~ Glen Cook
and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.
~ Glen Cook
Best way out," Elmo observed laconically, "would be to kill everybody who knows anything, then all of us fall on our swords." "Sounds a little extreme," Goblin opined. "But if you want to go first, I'm right behind you.
~ Glen Cook
It's no surprise to him what any government does, least of all his own.
~ Glen Duncan
I considered him and felt the now familiar crush of emotions weighing on me, begging me to cave in and fall into his strong arms. I pushed back with every ounce of energy I had left. Every time I trusted someone, I got hurt. Every time I let go, I was let down. Not again. I would drive them away before the left.
~ Glenn Beck
What he minded was her general resentfulness and permanent mistrustfulness, now that things were going better.
~ Glenway Wescott
The problem is that we tend to forget that lies are always presented as the truth, not that people hate the truth.
~ Goa Kerle
Está rodeado de pessoas esquisitas, as quais realmente não compreendo. Não têm aparência de espertalhões, nem de gente honesta. Às vezes parecem-me honestas, mas não consigo confiar nelas.
~ Goethe
Perhaps the only thing worse than having a mole is the fear of having a mole.
~ Gordon Corera
Why can't you just lie and cheat like the others?" Dan snapped. "Can't you just see that's better than being nice one minute and then turning around and selling us out? It may be very Cahill, but it stinks ! Grace had a saying: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, I'll conk you with this pet carrier!
~ Gordon Korman
A plain and simple answer for This riddle's what we wish: Does fishing make men liars, or Do only liars fish?
~ New York World, 1900
"They say" is often a great liar.
~ Proverb
Who lies for you will lie against you.
~ Bosnian Proverb
His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be.  The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience.  Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.  He would have to learn the reality of a thing before he could put his faith into it.
~ Jack London
God is bad, truth is a cheat, and life is a joke.
~ Jack London
One must gauge one's trust carefully.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Extending trust to those who have already proven themselves untrustworthy is a bit like cutting off the end of a rope and sewing it to the other end to make it longer.
~ James A. Owen
Whereas Jesus and his disciples were distrusted by the state largely because they respected the poor and shared everything, the fundamentalists of the present hour would appear not to know that the poor exist.
~ James Baldwin