Quotes About Distrust

It seems extraordinary, but even on the eve of D-Day, four years after de Gaulle had set up the Free French in London, the leaders of both Britain and the United States felt such distrust of him. But they detested his French chauvinism and genuinely feared that he might try to turn France into an anti-Western Gaullist dictatorship after the war.

I was terribly intolerant, but they were terribly threatening to me. They were everything I was afraid of becoming.

The more the bullshit, the less the action as a rule,

Guard against disappointments, because appearances can deceive. Things that are really as they seem are rare. And a woman is never as she seems.

Geralt had discovered, many times, that all mechanisms are unreliable. They only worked when they ought not to work, and vice versa.

Nulla è come sembra.» «Un'affermazione ineccepibile. Che ci conduce inesorabilmente alla conclusione che noi, Ciri, non sappiamo nulla l'uno dell'altra. Conosciamo solo le apparenze e quelle ingannano.»

Smile pretty, and watch your back

His face paled and he blinked violently as if he'd been slapped. She stepped away, expecting an angry outburst, but when he spoke it was almost in a whisper. 'Do you really think that badly of me?

With the first 'Heartless,' I was just tryna get my feet wet in the game, and it was like, 'nobody wanna help me, nobody wanna show me love,' so I ain't feel the love, nowhere. That's what made me heartless.

In real life, there are some times where a partner has cheated on somebody, and that person never found out about it. I have to imagine that that's happened before. It's a thing we don't really want to think about, because it's maybe the most painful thing to think about in a relationship - 'What if I've been cheated on and never knew?'

Whenever we tell the truth, nobody believes us. We lie, and people take it as etched-in-stone fact.

Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion.

I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

If the price is very cheap then it's almost certainly a fake.

We are not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into what's printed in newspapers.

Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us imprisoned: first, they physically isolate us from the outside world and those in it who love us; then they work to divide prisoners from one another by inculcating our distrust in one another.

Conservatives have deep distrust of government power, so I not only understand their privacy concerns, I share them.

Real movie producers aren't this nice.

Betrayal does so many different things to people.

The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.

I dispute that 'Closer' is about betrayal. Betrayal is one of the elements.