Quotes About Distrust

My son, remember that a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

The truck was its own driver, and that driver was a high-functioning paranoid.

Feliks Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka—Lenin's secret police, the forerunner of the KGB— personally kept a little black notebook in which he scribbled down the names and addresses of random "enemies" he came across while doing his job.12

They're never human, Lieutenant. They just mimic us to get what they want.

Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

We are always waiting for something bad. If something good happens, we are sure something bad will follow.

Lies from the closest to you are often the most numerous and paralyzing.

Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.

most people would not trust a drunken prostitute like Daise. Would you have two weeks ago?' She blinked at him. 'I don't know.' She hadn't even thought about prostitutes, drunken or not, two weeks ago. 'That could be me on the corner were things different.' She swallowed. 'Or if they go differently, it still could. I would want someone to believe me.

Dans leur dos

Il m'appelait tous les jours d'une cabine téléphonique, pour ne pas éveiller les soupçons de la fille avec qui il vivait.

High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

I have absolutely no confidence in the Ferguson police, the county prosecutor.

I thought that the AIVD was there to protect citizens like me.

As a studio executive, I took the approach that people are competent until proven otherwise. But when you make a movie, because there is so little time to fix things when they break, you have to almost come to it with the mindset that everyone is incompetent until proven otherwise.

Medea. Loathe on. . . . But, Oh, thy voice. It hurts me sore. Jason. Aye, and thine me. Wouldst hear me then no more?

Ah! there is naught more serviceable to mankind than a prudent distrust.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. She was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body.

Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

Well I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty cynical about everything

He doesn't want any trouble with ANYbody.' 'Who doesn't?' I inquired. 'Gatsby. Somebody told me——