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Quotes About Distrust

I'd see that look again when I taught at the community college, always in the eyes of women who'd grown up hard, a distrust of anything spoken softly.
~ Ron Rash
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~ Ronald Reagan
believes in God the way he believes in politicians-he knows He exists but doesn't count on Him for anything.
~ Russell Banks
I know someone said that even a really bad liar tells more truth than lies, but you still can't tell what are lies and what truth, can you?
~ Ruth Rendell
I wonder why people you have to meet have to be such liars. They lie as if their lives depended on it.
~ Ry? Murakami
That's when he hit her, when he saw how scared she was. He couldn't bear it that she was frightened and asking for help. Asking for help is wrong. Because there isn't any such thing as help in this world.
~ Ry? Murakami
Nosotros los seres humanos tenemos un temor natural a equivocarnos cuando nos formamos una opinión demasiado buena acerca de un ser humano. En cambio, no tememos quizá al error cuando pensamos mal de otro ser humano...
~ Soren Kierkegaard
To adduce proof that the husky, straw-hatted young man in gabardine who tailed me the whole next month was an F.B.I. operative is impossible, nor can I swear that my mail was fluoroscoped during that period. I do know that for a while I underwent all the tremors of a Graham Greene character on the run, even if it had no purificatory effect on my religious views. When
~ S.J Perelman
Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
So the film was a kind of lie, because by existing it said: 'Observe the lengths we'll go to for your security. We'll even make you a movie about it.' Style instead of substance, the image instead of the reality
~ Salman Rushdie
Guilty secrets make paranoids of us all.
~ Salman Rushdie
Few of us are murderers or thieves, but we have all been liars.
~ Sam Harris
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
~ Socrates
Today's friends are tomorrow's enemies.
~ Alexandre Dumas
You have suspicions, nevertheless? Yes, monseigneur; but these suspicions appeared to be disagreeable to Monsieur the Commissary, and I no longer have them.
~ Alexandre Dumas
In those times panics were common
~ Alexandre Dumas
Generalmente - diceva - si chiedono consigli solo per non seguirli; oppure, se si seguono, solo per avere qualcuno da rimproverare per averli dati». Porthos giunse un istante dopo d'Artagnan. I quattro amici si ritrovavano dunque riuniti. I quattro volti esprimevano quattro sentimenti diversi: quello di Porthos la tranquillità, quello di d'Artagnan la speranza, quello di Aramis l'inquietudine e quello di Athos l'indifferenza.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends:
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
The weak generally mistrust the justice and the reason of the strong.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
See a charmer and you're bound to see a snake nearby
~ Alice Hoffman
When you are a wolf, no place is safe, no one can be trusted. Unless they are what you are. Hunted.
~ Alice Hoffman
You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.
~ Alice Hoffman
Maybe if she watches him closely enough she'll understand what makes one person kind and another, herself for instance, mistrustful and hopeless.
~ Alice Hoffman
Be cautious, be sure of yourself, be careful of outsiders, beware of women who have the nerve to meet your eyes, who think they're your equals, who do as they please, who please you as well, who will never do as they're told. Maria glanced behind her when they reached the sea.
~ Alice Hoffman