Quotes About Reliability

Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.

Yeah, Cardan should definitely trust you more. You seem really trustworthy. It's not like you're actually currently betraying him.

He closes his eyes. When he opens them, he releases my hand and turns so I cant see his face. ¨I can see why you thought what you did. I suppose I am not an easy person to trust. And maybe I ought not to be trusted, but let me say this: i trust you.¨ Page 162

Things will be as they always are," he tells me. "Only more so.

I have asked you to lie to me in the past, in this very room, but I would beg you not to lie now.

that's one good thing about being obedient and faithful and good. People think you will never surprise them.

Your mother doesn't make mistakes." I hear her blow out the smoke. "Baby, I know what I'm doing.

When a man tells you he's going to hurt you, believe it. They always warn you and they're always right.

I tell people everything. People only believe what they can handle. That's how I know who to trust.

We- the Folk- don't love like you do,' Locke said. 'Perhaps you shouldn't trust me with your heart. I might break it.

He draws back. 'You really are beautiful,' he says. I am ever so glad to know that they cannot lie.

My word isn't worth much,' I remind him. 'So you keep saying.' He raises his brows. 'It's not comforting, I've got to tell you.

Working for you will always be working for you.

I suppose that's one good thing about being obedient and faithful and good. People think you will never surprise them.

the difference between a friend and a good friend is when you tell a friend a man's done you wrong, they commiserate. When you tell a good friend, they ask where you want to bury the body.

No, no,' said Sam. 'Of course not. I've got a good friend who

The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.

If the world around us is chaotic and sometimes incomprehensible, then the family is an oasis, an anchor of reliability and loyalty, a place where we are important because we are there.

I don't believe in getting clothes that just look pretty or that'll fall apart—they have to stand up to a lot of abuse.

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.

He seems genuinely happy for me. You can't always count on a guy for that.

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. you have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. you then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing (Pg.79)

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. Words aren't always the most reliable thing.

don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.