Quotes About Reliability

The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.

Every day, the New York Times carries a motto in a box on its front page. All the News That's Fit to Print, it says. It's been saying it for decades, day in and day out. I imagine most readers of the canonical sheet have long ceased to notice this bannered and flaunted symbol of its mental furniture. I myself check every day to make sure that the bright, smug, pompous, idiotic claim is still there.

Erections could be like cops: often there when you emphatically didn't require them and sometimes absent when you did. Or so I have been told by friends who thought they could trust me.

He Showed Up. Throughout his life and times, whenever and wherever something important was on the line, he presented himself.

The Diebold company, which also manufactures ATMs, should not receive another dime until it can produce a voting system that is similarly reliable.

The people most reluctant to use weapons are the ones who can best be trusted with them.

if you do your job and assume that everyone else is incompetent, you will seldom be disappointed.

I've known him for seventy years. I'll vouch for his lack of character

habt Ihr nicht selbst ein Weib? Die holde Emilia?« »Deshalb weiß ich ja, wovon ich spreche. Lug und Trug in hübscher Hülle, das sind sie alle. Wehe dem Mann, der anders denkt und ihnen traut.

How do we know you're not lying?" asked Orik.

Aku percaya bahwa kau memercayai apa yang kau ucapkan, tapi bukan berarti kata-katamu benar - Glaedr

We are grateful to people who occasionally help out, but we elevate them to a higher moral plane when they consistently do so, when we can count on them to show up rain or shine, not just when the boss is looking or free coffee is being served ... Along these lines, we value people who are loyal to their groups, who do not jump ship at the first rough weather.

There's only one sun, Alison said with feeling. It's always the same, but it's always the best. Do you know what I mean?

Kada policijos informatorius tampa išties patikimas? Kai atskleidžia s?moksl?. Tad reikia surengti s?moksl?, apie kur? gal?t? pranešti.

The sun is good because it does the body good, and because it has the sense to reappear every day; therefore, whatever returns is good, not what passes and is done with.

We'll pass over that one . . . Anyway, I happen to know from a reliable source that those present at the signing of the contract," and here his voice fell to a whisper, "were Avvocato Riccardi and General Negri di Saint Front." "And who the hell are they?

He was thinking about the boy who cried wolf. Honesty is the best policy. Wasn't that the moral of the story, according to Julian Bashir? Or was it: Never tell the same lie twice.

You mustn't fool yourself with the idea that you could hire experts to attend to things; for how could you know that a man was an expert, unless you knew as much as he did? Some day your foreman might drop dead, or some other fellow would buy him away from you, and then where would you be? Be your own expert, said Dad!

Repetition encompasses consistency. Finish what you start. Mean what you say. And don't say one thing and do something else. Consistency is an important aspect of repetition.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

Books are cold but sure friends.

Books are cold but safe friends.

Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy.

Books are cold, but sure friends indeed.