Quotes About Reliability

Ella sentía que podía confiar mucho más en la sinceridad de aquellos que en alguna ocasión podían decir alguna cosa descuidada o alguna ligereza, que en aquellos cuya presencia de ánimo jamás sufría alteraciones, cuya lengua jamás se deslizaba.

convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication.

Intuía que se podía confiar mucho mas en la sinceridad de las personas que a veces parecían o decían cosas imprudentes o precipitadas, que en la de aquellas cuyo estado de ánimo nunca se alteraba, a quienes nunca se les iba la lengua

Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution.

Çünkü s?rf içimizi rahatlatmak için verdiÄŸimiz sözleri bile tutamayacak hale gelirsek, ahlak kurallar?na ne olur?

Sono poche le persone che amo veramente e ancora meno quelle di cui penso bene. Più conosco il mondo, più ne sono scontenta; ogni giorno conferma la mia opinione sull'incoerenza degli essere umani e sull'impossibilità di fare affidamento su ciò che sembra meritevole o sensato. ...

The good sense of Colonel

Može li iko upoznati ne?iju narav u Batu, ili na kojem drugom javnom mestu... Sve je to ništavno; ne može se tako ništa znati. Samo kada ?ovek vidi ženu u njenom domu, me?u njenim prijateljima, onakvu kakva je uvek. Tek onda može da stekne ispravno mišljenje. Sve drugo je sre?a i naga?anje - a ?esto se ispostavi da je zla sre?a.

Son muy pocas las personas a las que quiero de verdad, y de pocos tengo buen concepto. Cuanto más conozco el mundo, menos me gusta; y cada día estoy más convencida de la inconstancia del carácter humano, y de lo poco fiable que es la apariencia de valía o de buen juicio.

a description. What Lucy had asserted to be true, therefore

trust a man who doesn't like children or animals

He trusted only Devers, and why was that? Devers said, "We're going here," and they went there. Devers said, "Expect this and that," and this and that came to pass. But the rumor was that Ike didn't like Devers, and Frank figured this was the reason—Devers didn't have his head up his ass, and everyone else did.

This cigarette tastes like ass, she said. I wasn't sure what ass tasted like, but she looked like she would know, so I was willing to take her word for it.

It's a known fact that you get fucked at the drive-thru.

Morelli was like the post office. He always delivered. If the delivery vehicle ran out of gas, there was no need to panic. Morelli had battery backup.

You can trust a woman who likes s'mores," I said. "It's the gooey factor.

Gus gave me a list of ice cream orders. "You can read, right?" "Yep." "I always gotta ask these days.

She should have realized I was a bad luck person, she should never have thought I was someone to count on.

Listen to me, not to her. I am authentic. I speak with authority. Go to the full texts of the journals, the letters home, and the rest. They will tell you what you want to know.

Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true.

Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are, and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.

I know I love a novel with an unreliable narrator, and I think many readers do as well.

I write unreliable narrators because - paradoxically - they're the most honest, true-to-life kind there is.

Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.