Quotes About Distrust

Why, thought Ulf, should a grown man seek to defraud a gullible fish? Here is a tasty morsel—no! A concealed hook! Foolish, foolish fish...

She should not have taken any of these people at face value. She had been naive. But this conclusion, she realized, pointed unambiguously in the direction of cynicism. And she would not be a cynic. It was better to be naive, much better.

Bloody dogs," Dad said, kicking indiscriminately under the table. He put his revolver next to his side-plate. Mum put her Uzi on an empty chair beside her. "Safety on?" Dad always asked. "Those things are liable to go off at the touch of a gnat's testicle.

Men who swear undying love sometimes have the worst intentions in the world.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Good people are rarely suspicious: they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing. Then,

Perhaps this was one of the reasons for her reticence. She knew that he was keeping a huge part of his life from her.

Could he trust this man? He had thought he could trust Rourk, after all. And while Edgar Knight had always been a strange duck, he had trusted him as well. Until he learned otherwise—the hard way. Men were snakes. If God himself could be betrayed by an angel in Heaven—an angel named Satan, whom he was forced to cast out—certainly any man could be betrayed by any other man at any time.

The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

If there remains any overriding idea it is that ideas are a problem. If there is any remaining commonly held value judgement it is that value judgements are wrong. If there remains any remaining certainty it is a distrust of certainty. And if this does not add up to a philosophy it certainly adds up to an attitude: shallow, unlikely to survive any sustained onslaught, but easy enough to adopt.

I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets.

Baby being part of this life I feel like Im bound to end up with somebody thats been with everybody.

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

You don't care if I'm guilty or not. You gonna make sure I go to jail for life.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

What a terrible man, I thought, worse than a traitor. At least a traitor betrays people by telling the truth. Uncle Zhu tried to save himself by telling lies.

When neighbors ran into each other, they did not stop to chat but just nodded and hurried on. Everyone felt vulnerable, and no one wanted to say anything that would cause trouble. We

Mrs. Palmer is a teacher so naturally I assumed she would never do anything good for me.