Quotes About Distrust

Scotty leaned across the table and whispered in a voice Travis wasn't supposed to have heard but did. "We've got to do something quick before Uncle Travis poisons us

You bury a friend—that gives you an enemy. It calls you more deeply into the cause. Then the time comes when you kill a friend. And that might drive you away. It can also have the opposite result—to deafen you against your own voice when it wants to ask questions.

The eternal companions of all clever women are mistrust and scorn.

Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their Amens and seen them gather on a porch or two afterward with their lemonade and piety, but he knew if he ever showed up on their steps, starving or injured, the only response he'd get to a plea for human kindness would be the amen of a shotgun pointed in his face.

Bob, who had never been late in his life, suspected there was something hostile at the core of people who always were.

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. Suddenly everything looks suspect and any brightness you may have noticed the day before has dissipated into the shadows. And the shadows are everywhere. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

I would not piss on him was he burning in the flames of hell, Grey said politely. One of Hal's brows flicked upward, but only momentarily. Just so, he said dryly. The question, though, is whether Fraser might be inclined to perform a similar service for you. Grey placed his cup carefully in the center of the desk. Only if he thought I might drown, he said, and went out.

I married a lady and she became a whore. I cannot complain if it should be the other way about this time." "You think I'm a whore, do you?" She wasn't sure whether to be amused or insulted. Perhaps both. "Do you normally sleep with your victims, madam?" "I wasn't asleep, Your Grace, and if you had been, I think I would have noticed. (A Fugitive Green)

people so often seemed not only willing but eager to believe the worst—and the worse, the better.

Not that my watching out was likely to do a lot of good, I thought; every second man on the dock looked like an assassin to me.

into a wolf?" The wary dislike stamped

Put not your trust in princes'?

The opportunism of electoral politics makes people lie to each other.

You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.

Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.

One never really knows who one's enemy is.

Los esclavos, más que nadie, conocemos el arte de la hipocresía.

As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.

Weltvertrauen, vertrouwen in de wereld. Hij beschrijft hoe moeilijk het is om zonder dat vertrouwen te leven. Wie dat vertrouwen eenmaal is kwijtgeraakt, is voor altijd tot eenzaamheid veroordeeld onder de mensen. Zo iemand ziet in een ander nooit meer zijn medemens, maar altijd alleen de vijand.

Alexander: Ingen jävel har en tanke i huvet. Oscar: Du måste vare rädd om mänskor, Alexander. Alexander: Idiotar. Nästsn allihop. Oscar: Så småningom kommer du att förstå - Alexander: Jag tror inte på det där snacket. "Så småningom kommer du att förstå." Vilket förbannat så småningom? Jag ser klart. Mänskor är löjliga och jag tyckar illa om dem.

Alexander: Ingen jävel har en tanke i huvet. Oscar: Du måste vare rädd om mänskor, Alexander. Alexander: Idiotar. Nästan allihop. Oscar: Så småningom kommer du att förstå - Alexander: Jag tror inte på det där snacket. "Så småningom kommer du att förstå." Vilket förbannat så småningom? Jag ser klart. Mänskor är löjliga och jag tyckar illa om dem.

Dac? m? sim?eam atacat,mu?cam la rândul meu ca un câine r?nit.Nu aveam încredere în nimeni,nu iubeam pe nimeni,nu sim?eam lipsa nim?nui.Eram subjugat de o sexualitate care m? împingea spre o permanent? infidelitate ?i ac?iuni for?ate,mereu chinuit de dorin??,team?,angoas? ?i con?tiin?? înc?rcat?.

And I know for a fact that those who "always have to tell the truth" are definitely lying.

You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt.