Quotes About Reliability

True friendship is a promise you keep forever.

You can never be sure of anyone until you're close enough to see them clearly.

At the very least you should tell yourself the truth. If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust?

After loving someone you couldn't depend on, you realize how important it is to trust someone will do what they say. It's such a simple thing, not to promise what you can't or won't deliver. But my mom had done that all the time.

I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.

Even when words fail me, you never do.

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to shut on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out. To me, it didn't seem complicated at all. In fact, it was the simplest thing in the world.

Friends don't leave each other in the woods. they are the one who come and take you out

After loving someone you couldn't depend on, you realize how important it is to trust someone will do what they say.

We're not buying Sam's Club condoms," said Owen. "Their trash bags don't even work.

Then believe, baby. I promise that if you fall, I will catch you. And I know you'll do the same for me.

I like that the Mall serves as our national Tuppaware, reliable and empty, waiting to be filled with potluck whatever.

I resist the urge to raise my hand and utter the four most reassuring words in the English language: I know a guy.

IF THE GREAT ANDROMEDA GALAXY had to depend on you to hold it up, where would it be now but fallen way to hell?

Nie mo?emy mówi? o autorytecie tam, gdzie nie ma nic, prócz dowodów.

about finding evidence of the past) And when you get that confirmation, it would instantly become the past itself. So in effect, you would be using the past, which does not exist, to confirm something else from the past. And if you repeat the process a thousand times, with a thousand different pieces of evidence, together they would still be nothing but impressions of the past supporting other impressions of the past.

La experiencia personal. (La percepción humana no es digna de confianza.) 2. La experiencia de sus conocidos. (Menos fiable, si cabe.) 3. Los expertos. (Trabajan por dinero, no para descubrir la verdad.) 4. Los estudios científicos. (Correlación ? causación.) 5.

La coherencia es el mejor marcador de la verdad del que disponemos, por imperfecto que sea.

Dealing with experts is always tricky. Are they honest? Are they competent? How often are they right? My observation and best guess is that experts are right about 98 percent of the time on the easy stuff but only right 50 percent of the time on anything that is unusually complicated, mysterious, or even new. Years

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

I bimbi non mantengono quel che promettono, i giovani mantengono assai di rado la parola e quando lo fanno è il mondo a non mantenerla con loro.

By using unconscious means to self-regulate, making "necessary evils" such as healthy eating and exercising and studying a routine part of their lives, they make the positive activities a routine habit so that they don't need to fight to get started, or overcome the disinclination to do them. Conscious and effortful self-control is too taxing and too unreliable, and as we know, vulnerable to rationalizations and excuses.

Friendship is the foundational block for building all relationships.

The books which were actively excluded (Chapter 11) were in nearly all cases considerably later and less reliable than those that were accepted.