Quotes About Distrust

Among other things, I'm afraid of cows." "Because of their size?" Helen asked sympathetically. "No, it's the way they stare. As if they're plotting something.

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly.

Everyone who ever trusted Washington has been betrayed. Possibly there is an exception somewhere, but the betrayals are vast and are sufficient in number to define Washington as the least trusted entity on the earth.

Pre 'Scam' era, I could go out with my daughter in the evening and just go out for a walk, or do things like buying vegetables or other things for the home. But now, in the post 'Scam' era, if I have to do something like that, I have to think about it many times now.

I know that if enough people shout a falsehood, people start to think it's true and a lot of people don't do independent verification of everything they hear.

When somebody asks for a favor involving information, if you don't know him or can't verify his identity, just say no.

On the second verse of 'Tears to Snow,' I talk about rappers and the way they view me now, rappers in the underground world who I might've know for a little bit, or they might've opened a show for me. A lot of them talk crap about me behind my back, and they'll smile in my face.

Ceux qui me voient se fient rarement à ma parole: je dois avoir l'air trop intelligent pour la tenir.

Deborah snapped me out of my pathetic fugue by slapping her hands on the steering wheel. "Goddamn it," she said. "I just don't fucking trust her." I

Kraunauer was waiting for me, standing next to the same young and serious agent who had brought us up. "I'm beginning to believe," Kraunauer said, "that Detective Anderson may not like you.

Meanwhile, Deborah was looking over the two men Hood had brought in. "What happened to these two?" she said to Hood. He shrugged and looked preposterously innocent. "Whataya mean?" he said. Debs

People's suspicions vanish when it looks like they're going to get what they want.

What's your name?" "Stu." He eyed me carefully. "You were asking some things? In the store?" His statements were inflected as questions. I

One said, "Nobody paused in front of the house since we've been here." I slipped my ID case away. "Any out-of-state tags?" "Didn't notice any." Different answer from "No." One

Sebastian felt sure Bruno's father wasn't the kind of man who would share a front door with someone else.

I'm 67 years old. it took me a long time to grow up to know that almost everything we hear is not true.

Did I see through the male tricks because I was destined to scheme that way myself? Or do girls see through the tricks, too, and just pretend not to notice?

I fear that until this rebellion is put down, she'll find herself caught in the middle, claimed by neither side, mistrusted by both.

The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

Jennifer Crusie

Everyone had an ulterior motive in his worldview. Everyone was self-serving and therefore a potential instrument of pain. The world was a lonely, awful, brutal, terrible place.