Quotes About Reliability

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

I'm just not no kid... I was always consistent with everything: school, sports, music, everything. I made sure. That's how I am.

I like to bet on as close to a sure thing as you can find.

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.

It's goddamned funny in this police racket how an old woman can look out of a window and see a guy running and pick him out of a line-up six months later, but we can show hotel help a clear photo and they just can't be sure.' 'That's one of the qualifications for good hotel help,' I said.

Go ahead and faint, I said. I'll catch you on the first bounce.

He looked at the corner of the ceiling with an absent stare. I looked at him with a not so absent stare. He looked like a man who could be trusted with a secret—if it was his own secret.

If he is a man on honor in one thing, he is that in all things.

Informants can be helpful, but they are never infallible. All tools can break, or be turned into weapons.

billions of women must be out there on this seven-billion-person planet being told that they are not reliable witnesses to their own lives, that the truth is not their property, now or ever.

I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the rest of their lives, that places were more reliable than human beings, and often much longer-lasting, and I asked them where they felt at home.

I'm not arguing here that women and children don't lie. Men, women, and children lie, but the latter two are not disproportionately prone to doing so, and men—a category that includes used-car salesmen, Baron von Münchhausen, and Richard Nixon—are not possessed of special veracity.

The results of the McMartin trial's chaotic interrogations are sometimes cited as evidence that children are unreliable, delusional liars, but it might be useful to remember that it was the adults who were the problem in that case.

Most of my life, I would have doubted myself and backed down. Having public standing as a writer of history helped me stand my ground, but few women get that boost, and billions of women must be out there on this seven-billion-person planet being told that they are not reliable witnesses to their own lives, that the truth is not their property, now or ever.

The implication that women as a category are unreliable and that false rape charges are the real issue is used to silence individual women and to avoid discussing sexual violence, and to make out men as the principal victims.

La loyauté de chacun d'eux —dont personne ne doutait— serait garantie par la présence des autres.

Le garde sut que cette femme ne mentait pas. Elle n'était pas de celles qui s'abaissent à mentir, quelles que soient les circonstances.

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I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.

Rand Foxworth hat mir erzählt, er hätte die Grippe, aber Foxworth lügt so, wie alte Leute ficken.

And you were truthful. No. You weren't truthful? I was accurate.

You don't trust me?' 'Now you come to mention it, no. But that isn't it.

But then that's humans for you—never can trust the stroppy fuckers to live up to the stereotypes you assign.