Quotes About Reliability

When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life.

It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe.

I am sorry to say that Mr. Poe had not done a very good job so far, and that the Baudelaires had learned that the only thing they could rely on with Mr. Poe was that he always had a cough.

The last safe place may not be a safe place after all.

Just because something is typed—whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book—this does not mean that it is true. The

It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

never trust anyone without a book

Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.

There are some librarians so trustworthy and so interesting that you know any book they recommend will be worth your time

You should never have told them,' said Dicky, who could always be relied upon for excellent advice long after it was any use.

Yes,' I said. 'There are trustworthy people in this world, but you have to take such unacceptable risks to find out who they are.

I never really trust drinking water anywhere but Scotland; and I've never been to Scotland. I

As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Unless it's a lie!" I blurted. "You tell 'em, Bick!" yelled Beck. "I just did!" "I know. I heard you." "Cool.

Earl Bartholomew is a teenager . Believe me, you just can't trust teenagers. Besides, I added, I think Earl's a little strange. He's taken too many ramps without a helmet.

Janey had accepted the responsibilities of adulthood, and people like that didn't run off on a moment's notice.

When you see a roadside marker, take in what it tells but also ask, how might this be wrong? One giveaway is the use of qualifying phrases introducing statements of fact, as in: "According to tradition..." or "According to the legislature..." Visitors can count on the rest of such sentences to be unsubstantiated.

Jonathan Kozol is of this school when he writes, "School is in business to produce reliable people."17 Paulo Freire of Brazil puts it this way: "It would be extremely naïve to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically."18 Henry Giroux, Freire's leading disciple

A poca gente quiero de verdad, y de muy pocos tengo buen concepto. Cuanto más conozco el mundo, más me desagrada, y el tiempo me confirma mi creencia en la inconsistencia del carácter humano y en lo poco que se puede uno fiar de las apariencias de bondad o inteligencia.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon.