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Quotes About Distrust

En la vida real era muy distinto. Todo el mundo es sospechoso. Todo el mundo está absorto.
~ John Katzenbach
Troy glanced at the boys, wondering how much they heard and how much they understood. Eight cherubic faces, and sixteen hard, ruthless eyes looked back at him.
~ John Lawton
Wer diese Worte liest - was für ein Bild bekommt er von mir? […] Kein hübsches Bild. Die Worte lügen also, in gewisser Hinsicht jedenfalls. Wie immer.
~ John Marsden
Now God deliver me from my friends!
~ John Marston
You can never trust hypocrites. They are liars. They are worse than disbelievers, because a disbeliever has not lied, saying that he believed and then turned back. This makes hypocrites the most hated of all people.
~ Elijah Muhammad
Is it 'the cruellest cut of all' when you talk of infinite kindness, yet attribute such villainy to me?
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Maybe all obligate carnivores are essentially the same. Can I eat that? Is it going to eat me? Is it a toy?
~ Elizabeth Bear
So I am going to trust you. I want you to know that if it turns out you're playing me, I'm going to spend the whole endless time the black hole is spaghettifying both of us being extremely disappointed in you.
~ Elizabeth Bear
You ever hear somebody blithely say something so amazingly plastered over with bullshit it just makes your eyes bug?
~ Elizabeth Bear
Had he robbed her of all joy forever? Or of all trust in her joy, which amounted to the same thing?
~ Elizabeth Bear
Do not believe in angels, Rien Conn, for they are all corrupted by the lies of the Builders, as your forebears were corrupted, too.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She hadn't trusted anyone, not since Patience. Not since Moon Morrow's confidential secretary had turned out to be not so confidential after all.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Garrett didn't miss the jeweled-serpent glitter in the man's eyes.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She glanced over her shoulder, pinning the hapless patrolman on a needle-pointed gaze, wondering which of her notories occupied his attention.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I kept waiting for her to reach out, to ask, to flirt. To get back to her gaslighting games, to get whatever she wanted from me.
~ Elizabeth Bear
People are vicious. They will turn on you.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
I found out myself long ago that there's no one whom one dislikes so much as the person in whom one's confided too much.
~ Elizabeth Ferrars
No; eternal slavery rather than be regarded with distrust by those whose respect I esteemed.
~ Elizabeth Keckley
But I know a lie when I hear one.
~ Elizabeth Scott
Trust no one, Julius said, and live without fear; love and torture make betrayers of us all.
~ Elizabeth Speller
Dit is de pest met mensen: als ze eenmaal geloven bestaat het gevaar dat ze alles aannemen.
~ Arthur Japin
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Rellonen snuste på kona si for å se om han dro kjensel på lukten hennes. Jo da. Hun luktet gammel, oppgitt kjerring. En sånn lukt går ikke av i vask.
~ Arto Paasilinna
I'm afraid of wooden horses, cheap gin, and pretty girls. Especially when they give me presents. And when they go by the name of the woman who defeated Sherlock Holmes.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte