Quotes About Reliability

People need to trust you: that you're going to pull them out and that they will follow you when you pull them out. If they don't get that comfort, they're going to drop you. This is true of organizations. It's true of countries.

You don't like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be lied to when it comes to the origin of life or the fate of the planet?

False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

I was the third parent, growing up, and it did make me a very overly responsible adult.

It sounded a bit like his mother, a woman who'd lied to him about the existence of Santa Claus and was therefore not to be trusted on matters of any importance.

All computers expect to be yelled at. There's not a single computer in the whole world that hasn't been sworn at. Even the discreet little VDU with the crossed keys monogram on the keyboard that sits on the Pope's desk in his office in the Vatican has in its time heard language that'd make a Marine blush.

A lifetime in the business had taught her that, apart from the few good people that work along-side you,nobody is to be trusted,ever,because sooner or later they'll let you down,sure as God made little green apples. And, when you came to think of it,hadn't that been the dirtiest trick of them all?

Paper will lie no matter what you put on it.

Those words—"Trust me, I'm a junkie"—should have been a clue right there.

Trust is a big word for me. Loyalty and trust, for me, are everything. It's the core of what I'm about and what the people around me hopefully are about. It's a certain thing that gives you a sense of security. It's the biggest factor in everything I do.

The reliability of stools? Solids, liquids, gases, the dance of atoms, the bounce and race of molecules, ethers, electrical charges. The eyes and habits of illusion. Retinal images, bogus images, traveling to the brain. The pupils trying to tell the truth to the inner eye. The eye of the heart. The eye of the head. The eye of the mind. All seeing differently.

Well, America is never a laughingstock because it's too powerful for that. But people do want clarity and consistency.

A friend that lets you down is like a coat that lets in water.

His word was as reliable as a plumbers promise

Yo no he tocado ese libro —le aseguró—. ¿Te acuerdas de que otras veces nos has pedido que te creamos? Pues ahora tú debes creerme a mí.

drivers were still in some of them, faithfully

How do you build trust? Through relationships, good decision making, consistency, and leadership.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.

I don't trust people with empty-stomach breath to tell me what taste is.

When we put our faith and trust in someone and they prove themselves to be false, it hurts.

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

Trust is a peculiar resource; it is built rather than depleted by use.