Quotes About Distrust

You strike me as a 'glass half-empty' kind of guy, sir," he said. "I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually," Wilson said.

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

I trust you," Dahl said. "Famous last words," Nick said

There is a certain type of person who feels like they must be armed at every moment of the day or else the world will come for them in some way.

Ain't many guys travel around together," he mused. "I don't know why. Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also––either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.

Joseph habitually scowled at furniture, expecting it to be impertinent, mischievous, or dusty.

He had drawn a derogatory statement from George. He felt safe now.

And by the same token she is hated by the twisted and lascivious sisterhood of married spinsters whose husbands respect the home but don't like it very much. Dora

A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open.

It's the lie I'm thinking of. It might infect everything. If they ever found out you'd lied to them about this, the true things would suffer. They wouldn't believe anything then." "Yes, I see. But what can I tell them? I couldn't tell them the whole truth." "Maybe you can tell them a part truth, enough so that you won't suffer if they find out.

The first few years after Samuel came to Salinas Valley there was a vague distrust of him. And perhaps Will as a little boy heard talk in the San Lucas store. Little boys don't want their fathers to be different from other men. Will might have picked up his conservatism right then.

1. Don't believe nobody. The bastards are after you. 2. Keep your mouth shut. Don't stick your neck out. 3. Keep your ears open. When they make a slip, grab on to it and wait. 4. Everybody's a son of a bitch and whatever you do they got it coming. 5. Go at everything roundabout. 6. Don't never trust no dame about nothing. 7. Put your faith in dough. Everybody wants it. Everybody will sell out for it.

She was suspicious of fun whether it involved dancing or singing or even laughter. She felt that people having a good time were wide open to the

Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves any more, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails.

Nedendir bilmem. Belki de herkes birbirinden korkuyor bu dünya da.

Purtiest goddamn country you ever seen, but they ain't nice to you, them folks. They're so scairt an' worried they ain't even nice to each other.

Cathy had the one quality required of a great and successful criminal: she trusted no one, confided in no one. Her self was an island.

Write him down, if he must write him down as something, as a disbeliever; he disbelieved in the Pope, in the Kremlin, in the Vietcong, in the American eagle, in astrology, Arthur Schlesinger, Eldridge Cleaver, Senator Eastland, and Eastman Kodak. Nor did he believe overmuch in his disbelief. He

I do have faith in humanity but I don't have faith in humans.

The problem in todays world is that people lack trust in goodness.

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.