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Quotes About Distrust

En las casi 4 semanas que pasó allá, negociando el alquiler del Henry Reed, obtuvo muchas informaciones, pero, siempre, con la sensación de que nadie llegaba al fondo de las cosas, que incluso las gentes mejor intencionadas le ocultaban algo y se lo ocultaban a sí mismos, temerosos de enfrentar una verdad terrible y acusadora
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Zou ze me, als haar man op reis was, een keer willen toestaan naar Newmarket te komen en een blik in haar huis te werpen? Nee, nooit.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Ha olvidado los hechos minúsculos, idénticos, que constituían su vida, esos días que siguieron al descubrimiento de que tampoco podía confiar en su madre, pero no ha olvidado el desánimo, la amargura, el rencor, el miedo que reinaban en su corazón y que ocupaban sus noches.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
I can't stand lies. Probably no one can. Probably everyone is, to varying degrees, allergic to them, both spiritually and physically. Lies make me feel low and ignoble, and also itchy, like there's sand under my skin. The only thing that feels worse than hearing a lie is telling one.
~ Marisa de los Santos
It's a terrible thing, to lie. It's a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on it." She
~ Marisha Pessl
The famous British child psychologist D. W. Winnicott called these aspects of personality our True Self and False Self. It is the True Self that lets us know what is authentic and what has become artificial, while the False Self is a diplomat of distrust, enforcing a lifestyle of guardedness, secrecy, and complaint.
~ Mark Nepo
I wouldn't believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized"—courtesy of Alair Townsend
~ Mark Singer
Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
~ Mark Twain
There was no trust anywhere in the world, O my brothers, the way I could see it.
~ Anthony Burgess
Their confidence in President Roosevelt was excessive. After the war, it became clear how little he had protected émigré interests: he did not publicize the existence of the death camps and he waited until January 22, 1944, to establish the War Refugee Board, long after it could have assisted in any organized rescue attempt. Perhaps the émigrés' initial distrust had not been
~ Anthony Heilbut
Far from starting with the premise that the authorities tell the truth, a depressingly large number of people now accept as a given that the government constantly lies. If it does not actively lie, many are persuaded, it conceals the truth.
~ Anthony Summers
Lord Fawn did not immediately recognise the falseness of every word that the woman said to him, because he was slow and could not think and hear at the same time.
~ Anthony Trollope
She thought so badly of men and women generally, and of Mr Broune and herself as a man and a woman individually, that she was unable to conceive the possibility of such a sacrifice.
~ Anthony Trollope
There are men who rarely think well of women, — who hardly think well of any woman. They put their mothers and sisters into the background, — as though they belonged to some sex or race apart, — and then declare to themselves and to their friends that all women are false, — that no woman can be trusted unless her ugliness protect her;
~ Anthony Trollope
Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.
~ Aristotle
Trusting people, the kind who are not on their guard and do not take precautions, because it is always easy to get away with wronging them.
~ Aristotle
I would not tell them too much, said Holmes. Women are never to be entirely trusted,—not the best of them. I did not pause to argue over this atrocious sentiment. I
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which would disgust you with human nature.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sterndale sprang to his feet. "I believe that you are the devil himself!" he cried. Holmes smiled at the compliment.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Many a woman has been fooled by a persuasive man on his best behavior," Greta said. "Some of them do have good in them. Some are bad right down to the bone.
~ Sherryl Woods
spending so much time with people who are willing to lie, steal, or worse in order to get what they want that I start accepting that as the normal course of events.
~ Sheryl J. Anderson
I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?' 'None,' said Mrs. Halloran.
~ Shirley Jackson
I personally preferred to chance the arsenic," Uncle Julian said.
~ Shirley Jackson
No, she thought, you are not going to catch me so cheaply; I do not understand words and will not accept them in trade for my feelings; this man is a parrot.
~ Shirley Jackson