logo

Quotes About Distrust

People are not always what they seem.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Daja: Die Menschen sind nicht immer, was sie scheinen. Tempelherr: Doch selten Etwas Besser.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Fabiano estirou o beiço, duvidando.
~ Graciliano Ramos
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
~ Graham Greene
In mockery are the seeds of impiety sown.
~ Graham McNeill
I got a good one. In light of your case and all," Tony said. "Okay. This guy comes home, finds his girlfriend packing. He's shocked. He says, 'What's going on? What are you doing?' Girlfriend says, 'I'm leaving you.' He says, 'You're leaving me? Why?' She says, 'Because you're a pedophile.' 'Yeah, yeah,' he says. 'Big word for a nine-year-old.'
~ Gregg Hurwitz
If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.
~ Gregory Benford
Its not impossible, Minelli said. No, Edward admitted, but its paranoid as hell, and thats the last thing we need, more fear.
~ Gregory Dale Bear
Even paranoids have enemies.
~ Gregory Mcdonald
the numerous ways in which you can destroy love. You can fritter it away, through flirting and affairs. You can fail to pay it attention and watch it wither. You can poison it with arguments and bad blood. You can give up on it without even realising, preoccupied in your own corner. You can let it slip through your fingers as you scan the horizon, believing that there is someone, something better elsewhere.
~ Gretta Mulrooney
Mientras don Julio estaba en el jiji-jajá con los mentados representantes del secretario de Gobernación, saboreando exquisitos platillos provenzales en salsa de puterías, la policía alistaba una colección de dóbermans y de pastores belgas prestos a arrancarles los huevos a los reos.
~ Guillermo Arriaga
In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.
~ Guy Debord
The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
I suppose there's always a place for Judas, at any table." *
~ H. Beam Piper
Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....
~ H. G. Wells
The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation.
~ H. L. Mencken
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
~ H. L. Mencken
I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually gives me a good advantage.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Being alone and in peace is better than being among people who will stab you in back and say all manner of things about you when you turn your back...
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Liars make the best promises." But their promises are a lot like impressions. The second one don't count for much.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
~ James Joyce
La gente aguantaba que les mordiera un lobo pero lo que verdaderamente les sacaba de quicio era que les mordiera una oveja.
~ James Joyce
He stooped to the evil of hypocrisy with others, sceptical of their innocence which he could cajole so easily.
~ James Joyce
I had no plan in mind. However, that statement is one I have always distrusted in other people, and I distrust it even more when I think it or say it myself. The unconscious always knows what the person is doing or planning. The agenda is to find the situation and the rationale that will allow the individual to commit deeds that are unconscionable. No matter how you cut it, I was back to the short form of the Serenity Prayer, known in AA and other recovery groups as Fuck It.
~ James Lee Burke