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Quotes About Distrust

What do you take me for? Do you think I was born yesterday? Do you think I have never dealt in eggs?
~ Primo Levi
Chi per mestiere compra o vende si riconosce facilmente: ha l'occhio vigile e il volto teso, teme la frode o la medita, e sta in guardia come un gatto all'imbrunire.
~ Primo Levi
I thought of another moral, more down to earth and concrete, and I believe that every militant chemist can confirm it: that one must distrust the almost-the-same […], the practically identical, the approximate, the or-even, all surrogates, and all patchwork. The differences can be small, but they can lead to radically different consequences…
~ Primo Levi
You know, Shane said twenty minutes later, I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.
~ Rachel Caine
Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot.
~ Rachel Caine
There is no such thing as unlimited trust. At some point, all beings with free will can, and will, betray you when you're no longer pursuing the same goals.
~ Rachel Caine
It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.
~ Rachel Caine
I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.
~ Rachel Caine
I can smell the crazy on that man from here. I have a nose for it.
~ Rachel Caine
You should have trusted me. I'm really tired of people not trusting me.
~ Rachel Caine
Claire…bitch!'" Her voice sounded raw and hoarse. "You…think this…makes us…friends?'" "God, no,'" Claire said. "But I think you kinda owe me.
~ Rachel Caine
Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure.
~ Rachel Cohn
It is possibly true what Grandpa's buddies have repeatedly told me: Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure.
~ Rachel Cohn
The world was too full of wastrels and waifs, sycophants and spies—all of whom put words to the wrong use, who made everything that was said or written suspect.
~ Rachel Cohn
People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable. To
~ Dean Koontz
I guess I need to get my paranoid on.
~ Dean Koontz
I reminded myself that the heart is deceitful above all things.
~ Dean Koontz
Pero nadie es por completo honesto con todo el mundo, siempre y en todos los aspectos. Qué diantre, la necesidad de engañar no es más que otra de las maldiciones que debe soportar nuestra pobre especie.
~ Dean Koontz
She distrusts those who prefer power to money
~ Dean Koontz
Carson didn't believe either man was what he presented himself to be. Frawley looked like a fixer, a slick operator who had friends in all the highest places and knew how to take care of any screwup they committed.
~ Dean Koontz
It was unnerving to have allies who struck you as goofy; it made your own opinions seem suspect.
~ Dean Koontz
the heart is deceitful above all things.
~ Dean Koontz
we're not living in an age of truth and grace.
~ Dean Koontz
These days, "science" is often nothing more than a cover story.
~ Dean Koontz