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Quotes About Reliance

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.
~ Orson Scott Card
Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.
~ Orson Scott Card
The little bitch. She didn't have her files in another computer. She kept everything she knew inside her head.
~ Orson Scott Card
And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we'r'e that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it.
~ Orson Scott Card
So our reliance on the computers caused the failure of the mission? asked the expendable. The mission didn't fail, said Ram. It succeeded nineteen times. We're just the exhaust trail.
~ Orson Scott Card
Anton: "You're asking me?" Sister Carlotta: "God not being convenient, I ask a fellow mortal.
~ Orson Scott Card
And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we're that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it.
~ Orson Scott Card
And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we're that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it." "I guess that's what you're doing. Betting your life on her being what you think she is.
~ Orson Scott Card
Oh, you're willing to concede God's existence, but that's not what I meant. I mean believe in him the way a mother means it when she says to her son, I believe in you. She's not saying she believes that he exists -- what is that worth? -- she's saying she believes in his future. She trusts that he'll do all the good that is in him to do. She puts the future in his hands. That's how she believes in him.
~ Orson Scott Card
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nimeni nu crede niciodat? ceea ce se întâmpl?, decât dup? ce e prea târziu.
~ Connie Willis
If we were going to die would you tell me? I dont know. We're not going to die.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Niemand au?er den Ratsmidgliedern, ihre Sekretären, Ehefrauen, den Minenarbeitern, die die Gruft gefunden haben...' Jacob hob den Zwerg in den Käfig. 'Ich wurde mich nicht darauf verlassen, dass euer Geheimnis sicher ist.
~ Cornelia Funke
Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about stuff into one human being. They're a human being they're going to let you down. You can't make someone your hero because of something you read on the internet. The internet is not a source of information it is a source of disinformation.
~ Craig Ferguson
Beriel gave this gift to Elske carelessly, as if to be trusted were the common fortune. But Elske opened her heart to take the gift into her care as if it were a babe.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
~ D. H Lawrence
Non fidatevi mai dell'artista. Fidatevi del racconto.
~ D.H. Lawrence
A man has to fend and fettle for the best, and then trust in something beyond himself. You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best of you and in the power beyond it.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Debo dejar los asuntos molestos en manos de personas objetivas.
~ Walter Isaacson
Of this disposition, to see as much of the supernatural as is seen by others around, or, in other words, to trust to the eyes of others rather than to our own
~ Walter Scott
Yeah, trust the fuckhead.
~ Warren Ellis
The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.
~ Watchman Nee
All her triumphs over sin and error have been effected by the word of God. So long as she uses this and relies on it alone, she goes on conquering; but when any thing else, be it reason, science, tradition, or the commandments of men, is allowed to take its place or to share its office, then the church, or the Christian, is at the mercy of the adversary. Hoc signo vinces—the apostle may be understood to say to every believer and to the whole church.
~ Charles Hodge
should be one of trust and abandonment.
~ Charles J. Chaput