Quotes About Distrust

People never pay attention to weather reports; this, I believe, is a constant factor in man's psychological makeup, stemming probably from an ancient distrust of the shaman. You want them to be wrong. If they're right, then they're somehow superior, and this is even more uncomfortable than getting wet. This Moment of the Storm

Never trust a cat, anyway. All they're good for is stringing tennis racquets.

I still thought you might be behind the whole thing. You or Brand. I had it narrowed down that far. I thought it might even be the two of you together-especially with him struggling to bring you back.

By looking at his face, I could no more tell whether he was lying, in whole or in part, than I could learn by scrutinizing the Jack of, say, Diamonds.

Some of Washington's religious style probably reflected an Enlightenment discomfort with religious dogma, but it also reflected his low-key personal style. He was sober and temperate in all things, distrusted zealotry, and would never have talked of hellfire or damnation. He would have shunned anything, such as communion, that might flaunt his religiosity. He never wanted to make a spectacle of his faith or trade on it as a politician.

It is almost inconceivable that he did not suspect at moments that Archbold had learned some of his tricks from Senior.

Having never dealt with Frank, Slaght naively trusted him.

Why distrust the evidence of the Jews? Discredit them and you destroy the Christian religion.

Rockefeller was similarly suspicious of any boasting or ostentation among associates.

We were beginning to prosper and I felt very uneasy at my name being linked up with these speculators.

I'd always been suspicious of unrelenting sunniness, what it must be working so hard to conceal.

But you think it because you don't trust your colleagues. Not all of them. You don't believe in them. Which leaves you isolated. It's all down to you. But the army is different. Whatever else is wrong with it, you can trust your brother soldiers. And believe in them.

He spoke in a neutral tone and said, "Help you?" Which in my experience are two words that can precede anything from genuine wholehearted cooperation to a bullet in the face. I said, "We're looking for John Kott.

You don't let an armed man ride behind you unless you know him.

Era posible que estuviera reaccionando como reaccionan muchas víctimas de secuestros: con cierta desconfianza hacia quienes no han compartido su experiencia.

The existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions.

The man with the jeans and the hair looked back at Westwood and said, "Mr. Torrance, I guess our first question would be whether you're wearing a wire.

Why's everybody looking at me? he asked. We checked the tape, she said. You know, the surveillance camera. So? She wouldn't answer. He reviewed his time in the room. He'd showered twice, walked around some, pulled the drapes, slept, opened the drapes, walked around some more. That was all. I didn't do anything, he said. She smiled again, wider. No, you didn't. So what's the big deal? Well, you know, you don't seem to have brought any pajamas.

Garber always tells the truth. So nobody ever believes him.

Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

Tu intención debía ser mala; si no, lo habrías firmado, como cualquier persona honesta.

The world is a lie...not you and me.

I knew it. You're an alien," said her former best friend, the pale, bespectacled creature with the spectacular cleavage. "Yes, I'm an alien and I still made cheerleader. And now I'm going to steal your boyfriend to prove girls can't really be friends." "I sat back timidly when you torched my house, killed my parents, and ate my dog. But now you're stealing my boyfriend? That's a step too far!

She's right. I don't trust her farther than I can run full-steam in a corset, but she's right. The truth is hard and unfair, but there it is.