Quotes About Reliability

The don knew that love is not a reliable emotion to matter how deep. Love does not ensure gratitude, does not ensure obedience, does not provide harmony in so difficult a world. No one understood this better than Don Clericuzio. To inspire true love, one also had to be feared. Love alone was contemptible, it was nothing if it did not also include trust and obedience. What good was love to him if it did not acknowledge his rule?

The meeting would be safe as a wedding.

The Don knew that love is not a reliable emotion to matter how deep. Love does not ensure gratitude, does not ensure obedience, does not provide harmony in so difficult a world. No one understood this better than Don Clericuzio.

Don Corleone had promised his godson he would get the part and Don Corleone had never, to Hagen's knowledge, broken his word in such matters.

Kurt Cilke liked dogs because they could not conspire. They could not hide hostility, and they were not cunning. They did not lie awake at night planning to rob and murder other dogs. Treachery was beyond their scope.

Als het tenminste waar is wat je me vertelt. Want weet je, hoe vervelend ik het ook vind, je hebt me al zoveel verhaaltjes op de mouw gespeld dat het me moeilijk valt er ook maar iets van te geloven.

Les hommes s'efforcent de croire en Dieu parce qu'ils n'ont pas confiance en eux-mêmes. Et l'histoire nous démontre qu'ils n'ont pas tort car jusqu'à présent nous n'avons pas été bien fiables.

Since the publisher paid the salary; since rewrite men, like television writers, maintained their own feeling of superiority to the mass by writing down to the level of a not very bright twelve-year-old; since the facts had to be trimmed and altered to fit the open space or time slot; even these reporters had a difficult time of maintaining the usual odds—that there is only a twenty-to-one chance that anything said in the newspapers or on the air may be accurate.

I did know what it meant when you say you promise something. You have to say that you will never do something again and then you must never do it because that would make the promise a lie.

He said, 'are you telling the truth?' I said, 'Yes. I always tell the truth.

dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I can't tell lies.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I can't tell lies.

When people make certain statements and their acts conform to those statements I tend to take them at their word.

our" reaction on the errors found in Mike Mann's work were not especially honest.

the fact that the climate models do not reliably model the real climate.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

Doch die Erinnerung spielt uns Streiche. Erinnern iat ein anderes Wort für Erfinden, und nichts ist unzuverlässiger.

Character you either have or don't have. Bigfoot understood that there are two types of people in the world: those who do what they say they're going to do — and everyone else.

A ideia era contratar para a minha equipa a maior quantidade possível de ajudantes leais – rapazes e raparigas que respondessem diretamente perante mim, em quem pudesse confiar para me protegerem a retaguarda – antes que o gerente da cozinha me impingisse os tipos dele, malta que não me diria nada se o meu cabelo estivesse a arder, e muito menos se havia alguém à minha espera com a faca pronta.

People will continue to pay for quality. They will be less and less inclined, however, to pay for bullshit.

A fidelity extremely rare among one's friends.

Ve y convierte tus palabras en hechos. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

We all need an income that we can count on. Consistent cash flow that shows up in our account every single month, like clockwork.