Quotes About Distrust

think I would be lying if I said that the painful and perpetual mistrust that Albertine was to inspire in me had already begun, let alone the particular, above all Gomorran, character which that mistrust was to assume.

As much as I bad-mouth people in general and think the worst of them, I'm secretly waiting for them to surprise me. Try as I might, I haven't been able to give up on them wholly. Even though they are nine and nine-tenths dirt, now and again they are capable of something angelic. I can't say that it restores my faith, because I really had none in the first place, but when it happens it does confuse you.

Wie weet, flitste 't door mijn brein, of mensen, zo gemoedloos als ik, niet altoos de gewaarwording hebben, dat elke gevoelsuiting van anderen een aanstellerij of een overdrijving is. Ja, misschien acht iedereen zijn evenmens, die hij niet begrijpt en dus niet natuurlijk kan vinden, min of meer een acteur.

People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.

I will even not rant about treachery. I was brought up in a sea of treachery and deceit and betrayal. I swam in it like perch in the Nile. I am completely at home in it. I shall not drown.

Philip would not be afraid to die. But to live; to take over the mastery of more than half the world; to make swift decisions in the heat of action; to break the power of his arrogant nobles and then seem to make friends with them, while always distrusting them; to trust no one, depend on no one, to listen to advice and take none of it - yes, Philip was afraid to live.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

IF YOU BELIEVE THE DOCTORS," Salisbury once remarked, "nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.

Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word. Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?" "I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said softly. " I find it...quite...fascinating.

We chatted for some moments, and Janet joined us, and it was not until some minutes later that I became aware of someone hating me. It is one of those odd but unmistakable sensations one experiences Sometimes on buses or at private dinners, and I looked across the table to observe a young cleric whom I had never seen before regarding me with honest hostility.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

We have created a world we don't like, don't understand and don't trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.

Demonise one of them and the sympathisers will melt away.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

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

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.