Quotes About Distrust

Are you always so suspicious?' 'What can I say?' He held out his palms. 'The world is an ugly place. We must live in it.

I watched him hang on the other man's words. He is too trusting. But I would not be the raven on his shoulder all the time, predicting gloom.

Dopotutto sarebbe stato improbabile che mio padre ci permettesse di stare soli insieme, il suo stupido figlio e la sua stupida moglie.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

Esme looks up, sees the watch in Iris's outstretched hand and shakes her head. She holds up the blue check material and Iris sees that it is a dress, a woollen dress, that it's crumpled and two of the buttons are missing, torn out from the fabric. Esme is shaking it, as if something might be caught in its folds, then casts it aside.

My wife, I should tell you, is crazy. Not in a requiring-medication-and-wards-and-men-in-white-coats sense— although I sometimes wonder if there may have been times in her past—but in a subtle, more socially acceptable, less ostentatious way. She doesn't think like other people. She believes that to pull a gun on someone lurking, in all likelihood entirely innocently, at our perimeter fence is not only permissible but indeed the right thing to do.

Then, almost as an afterthought, she turned and locked the bathroom door. If he thought he was going to seduce her, make her stupid enough to believe his lies by getting her into bed, he'd better think again. She stepped into the water. Besides, women didn't lose brain cells at the thought of sex. Only men did.

Lonely is better than used, Brigit. Besides, who the hell is there to trust? Who do you suggest I start with?

RAMNIK. Nobody is asking you to pray all day. ARUNA. Who do you think is protecting this house? RAMNIK. Who do you think is creating all this trouble? (Exits.)

Most people believed in witches; the thornier question was whether an individual could reasonably be hanged on the testimony of her neighbours.

Intelligence is built on deception. Trust nothing. Not even the mirror.

only 3 per cent believed that governments worked to improve their lives.

Non ho mai conosciuto una persona intelligente che amasse per davvero o avesse fiducia nel prossimo. Al massimo ha provato compassione.

Moreover, I discovered that day that grown-ups could lie just as well as I, and it seemed to me that I could no longer feel quite safe with them.

What criterion ought one to adopt to judge one's fellows? After all, there was not a single person he knew who might not, in certain circumstances, prove capable of a shameful action.

so great can the gulf be between a lying woman's invention and the idea which her lover, relying on her lies, has formed of the truth.

Madness is a distrust of reason.

Never believe governments,' she wrote, 'not any of them, not a word they say; keep an untrusting eye on all they do.

trust no one, everything breaks, nothing works as advertised, and if anything can go wrong, it will.

When it comes to being around women, I wouldn't trust that guy further than I could spit a Norwegian rat," Lucas had grumbled.

Having some guy shine his flashlight up my asshole isn't gonna improve my addition," he said.

The more he worked around the PPPI, the more he got the feeling that he was onto something. People were lying to him, misdirecting him. He couldn't exactly put a finger on why he thought that, but he'd learned the hard way not to ignore even unsupported intuition.

Captain, the problem is not that I'm paranoid. The problem is that the universe keeps justifying my paranoia.

I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually