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Quotes About Distrust

Johnny did not bother to do a background check on Damien.
~ Garrett Sutton
Then we knew he was lying.
~ Gary Paulsen
he would get all intro on me, turn down the community access on his äppärät so that I wouldn't know where the fuck his mind was, and
~ Gary Shteyngart
Do not put too much faith in government
~ Gary Snyder
If there's one thing I know, it's that the minute someone feels obligated to tell you not to be afraid of them, that's the time to start being afraid of them.
~ Gene Doucette
He shook his head. Everyone fears me, except you, Latro. When a man is respected, no one wants to plant a dagger in his back. When he is feared, everyone thinks upon it, and tests the point.
~ Gene Wolfe
His eyes say quite plainly that he once trusted someone, that he has been repenting it for longer than you or I have been alive, and that he will never take the chance again.
~ Gene Wolfe
Among you Medes, I'm told, there are many men so honorable that everyone trusts them. We're not like that at all—we never trust one another. So what we do instead is make sure that each side's represented, so that every rascal's got two worse looking over his shoulder.
~ Gene Wolfe
She stopped spinning to smile at me. I knew she meant it to be friendly, but her teeth were terrible and looked as sharp as razors.
~ Gene Wolfe
For Cato says that he who is guilty believes every one speaks only of him.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Un hombre honrado y un ladrón nunca pueden pensar igual.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I distrust patriotism; the reasonable man can find little in these days that is worth dying for. But dying against - there's enough iniquity in Europe to carry the most urbane or decadent into battle.
~ Geoffrey Household
If a man is clean shaved and has a well-fitting collar and tie - even reasonably dirty - he can get away with a multitude of suspicious circumstances
~ Geoffrey Household
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
~ George Carlin
It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya.
~ George Carlin
If a man smiles all the time, he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
~ George Carlin
Whenever you hear the phrase zero tolerance, remember, someone is bullshitting you.
~ George Carlin
He thought it probable that Miss Brooke liked him, and manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful.
~ George Eliot
He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust
~ George Eliot
Él desconfiaba del cariño de Dorothea y ¿qué soledad hay mayor que la de la desconfianza?
~ George Eliot
Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them.
~ Heather Graham
Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting - no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enough is enough.
~ Joe Garcia
Many of us develop different flavors of cynicism that we work hard to resist because they can be lazy mental shortcuts.
~ James Comey
Thousands of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury's believing their word over a police officer's are slim to none.
~ Michelle Alexander