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Quotes About Distrust

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.
~ Alan Moore
I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.
~ Parineeti Chopra
Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.
~ Mitchell Baker
My tenure as mayor of Braddock started with a community that was embroiled in mass distrust between residents and the police force.
~ John Fetterman
He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.
~ Mark Rydell
We simply cannot afford to allow our government to go unscrutinised, most of all in amid the bleak seeming imperatives of the 'war on terror'.
~ Nick Harkaway
Politicians are a lot like five-year-olds. You know: one day they're best friends and five minutes later they're rolling around in the sandpit biting chunks out of each other.
~ Robert Muchamore
The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.
~ Robert Mugabe
Neville flexed his nostrils, he didn't like the smell of this. The young man was clearly a monomaniac
~ Robert Rankin
Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted.
~ Robert Sheckley
Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
~ Robert Southey
I have been forced to believe that neither the scholarly grace of my friend Elliott nor the buxom beauty of my friend Rowden have touched that heart of ice." Elliot and Rowden, boiling with indignation, cried out, "And you!" "I," said Clifford blandly, "do fear to tread where you rush in.
~ Robert W. Chambers
Early in their lives they learned to distrust positive verbal expressions and even physical affection, because more often than not these feelings covertly expressed their parents' need and desperation.
~ Robert W. Firestone
A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust; Promiscuities of bed and board and road; The one assured treasure A life, in recollection, truly possessed.
~ Robert Wells
Y Erdosain remiró aquel rostro casi redondo, con laxitud de paz, y en la que sólo denunciaba al hombre de acción de chispa burlona, movediza, en el fondo de los ojos, y ese movimiento de levantar una ceja más que otra al escuchar al que hablaba. Erdosain distinguió a un costado, entre el saco y la camisa de seda que usaba el Rufián, el cabo negro de un revólver. Indudablemente, en la vida, los rostros significan poca cosa.
~ Roberto Arlt
Once one knows what heartless people can do, it cannot be entirely forgotten. It always remains among the possible things that can befall you.
~ Robin Hobb
The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.
~ Robin Hobb
Explanations had seldom worked between us. Trust had.
~ Robin Hobb
She stared at him suspiciously. 'You drank all
~ Robin Hobb
Lies breed distrust, and distrust brings conflict.
~ Robin Jarvis
Aw, Noah. That's nice." "I've been trying to tell you, I am nice." She dried her hands on a towel. "Yeah. Watch out for Gloria, toots. I think she's looking for more than nice." *
~ Robyn Carr
They're lying. Angel's friends, her brother—they all know more than they're saying. And yet they also seem genuinely concerned and want her back. Meaning?
~ Lisa Gardner
Leave it to Massachusetts to create a gun policy so paranoid that even when you took the proper legal steps no one believed you.
~ Lisa Gardner
voice in this? For God's sake, Chase—" She caught the warning look in Chase's eye and stopped cold. This wasn't the time or place. He seemed to be silently warning her, telling her not to make a scene in front of the detective. "Baldwin was interested. That's all." "And so you met at the mill and then what?" Wilson asked. "We'd just left the office and were walking up the ramp to building
~ Lisa Jackson