Quotes About Distrust

The so-called "innocents" are still wearing the skins of sheep to cover their evil intentions. Thus, we must avoid flatterers at any cost, so as not to become their victims.

Oh yeah, that's the one who kept watching me as if she was waiting for me to grow fangs and try to eat her. I couldn't help it—I used my claws to scratch my nose. Her eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

Where did you get the control sample?" A flash of dark heat raced through him and he knew himself well enough to identify it as a dose of pure jealousy. "From Tamsyn." A pause, as if she was debating whether to continue. "I know you'd react negatively if I approached a make. You're... possessive." "Sugar, I'm way past possessive." His voice was no longer fully human.

And perhaps, if the adults here and around the world got it right, she'd never know anything but friendship and family and hope. Not war. Not racial discord. Not anger and distrust.

Kaleb hadn't expected anything else—if he were on the other side, he wouldn't trust himself either.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Who wants you dead, Max?" "You, apparently. I didn't realize I was such a poor dinner companion.

We're staying for the moment. ut if you do anything i find the least bit suspicious, I'll kill you. Fair Warning?

I am wild, if you like; but I stayed in my burrow a long, long time, - nibbling your straws and snapping at your fingers, but always just a little out of reach. Until at last I got to trust you so much that one day I ventured out for a minute, - and you threw rocks at me. And I will never come out again.

And finally, most important, that I could trust men, to a certain extent, because of my power, but never females: females betrayed, smiled and lied and conned and betrayed worse than any man. I

The events we live through taught me to be sure of nother about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world who mean you harm. And sometimes, they're people you say they love you.

C. P. Snow once argued that foolish faith in authority is the enemy of truth.

These ruptures between police and communities undermine trust in government, as well as the constitutional legitimacy of government as represented by such police action and its prosecutorial and juridical blessings. Distrust of government is an unfortunate trend now shared by both extremes of the political spectrum. Tea

Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.

A prince should suspect everything.

Perfidious Albion.

I start out by believing the worst

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies

People love conspiracy theories.

You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.