Quotes About Reliability

For reliable information, apply to a lawyer, a barber or prostitute. My informant hasn't found out so far who paid the captain.' 'But she will,' said Margaret, her face grave. 'I hope so,' he said with equal gravity

You've chosen a life of vice, and have been consistent and reliable and thorough and successful in carrying it out.

You know we believe Philippa.' 'Perhaps I envy her,' Lymond said. 'No one believes me.

I will give you to Catherine. I will not give you to a hole in the ground.

He has merely broken, as always, every promise he ever made, before man or God.

I took the liberty of ascertaining as much beforehand, my lord. Of course you did, Bunter. You always ascertain everything.

She is a very conscientious person," said Miss Lydgate, "but she has rather an unfortunate knack of making any subject sound dull. It's a great pity, because she is exceptionally sound and dependable. However, that doesn't greatly matter in her present appointment; she holds a librarianship somewhere—Miss

Ah, well, as the old pagan said of the Gospels, after all, it was a long time ago, and we'll hope it wasn't true.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

The light works, he said, indicating the window, the gravity works, he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. Anything else we have to take our chances with.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.

But can we trust him?" he said. "Myself I'd trust him to the end of the Earth," said Ford.

The safety of the crew is absolutely assured.

The legend is this: The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

The room was much as Slartibartfast had described it. In seven and a half million years it had been well looked after and cleaned regularly every century or so. The ultramahogany desk was worn at the edges, the carpet a little faded now, but the large computer terminal sat in sparkling glory on the desk's leather top, as bright as if it had been constructed yesterday.

You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!

But can we trust him?' he said. 'Myself, I'd trust him to the end of the Earth,' said Ford. 'Oh yes,' said Arthur, 'and how far's that?' 'About twelve minutes away,' said Ford. 'Come on, I need a drink.

God was like the phone company: You paid your bill, and sometimes you got cut off anyway.

secondary accounts are viewed by historians as examples of 'generation loss' and the unreliability of oral tradition. The farther you are from the primary source, the harder it gets to be certain the details are one hundred percent accurate.

If to feel is to be unreliable don't listen to us if to be in pain is to be predictable embittered bullying then don't listen to us If we're in danger of mistaking our personal trouble for the pain on the streets don't listen to us

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.