Quotes About Distrust

Le malheur est une espèce de talisman dont la vertu consiste à corroborer notre constitution primitive : il augmente la défiance et la méchanceté chez certains hommes, comme il accroît la bonté de ceux qui ont un cœur excellent.

It happens often, betraying one another, doesn't it?

He's not afraid to trust anyone. That's his strength. But it's also a double-edged sword.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Harry and Tyrone were holding out a little more on each other each day. If one guy somehow got caught short and his nose and eyes were running and his body shivering as they scuffled and hustled the street trying to cop, and asked the other one to give him a taste, the guy swore up and down he had nothing, that he had just done in his cottons, and he would start shaking, trying to fake his friend out.

Masters and men do not trust each other; they fear each other, ever thinking that each side is ready to take advantage.

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence

She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.

Our constitution shows one thing pretty clearly. While the Founders wanted a stable government, they were also afraid of it.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.

Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.

People lie. People disagree. People make mistakes. To find out the truth, you have to know how to search for it.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Truthful man: He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Hombre veraz: aquel que, secretamente, es considerado por todos como un enemigo.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

The paradox of Hank Williams was that he was easygoing on the outside, yet tense and querulous inside. He pretended that he'd just ridden into town on a mule, yet had a lively intelligence combined with what Minnie Pearl described as a "woods-animal distrust" of anyone who appeared to have any more learning than he did.

Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

You seem ill at ease, Miss Sullivan. I assure you I'm completely harmless," he said.

Certains ont l'air honnête, mais quand ils te serrent la main, tu as intérêt à recompter tes doigts. Some may look honest, but when you shake their hand, you had better count your fingers.

Doubt is not within me. It is all around me.

Evil is always fuelled by jealousy.

Jealousy is the root of all evil.