Quotes About Reliability

It's good to be held accountable.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

Karthik hasn't aged or changed since I met him.

An agreement is an agreement, and when you make it, you should stick to it.

The truth has always been my greatest ally.

I don't think I've had a better friend than Burt Reynolds. I could ask him for almost anything, and he would have said O.K.

We want laws to be applied predictably.

Chesnel was clear-sighted so long as Victurnien was not there before him. One by one he lost the illusions which the Marquis and his sister still fondly cherished. He saw that the young fellow could not be depended upon in the least, and wished to see him married to some modest, sensible girl of good birth, wondering within himself how a young man could mean so well and do so ill, for he made promises one day only to break them all on the next.

One point, however, I may insist on; all trickery, all deception, is certain to be discovered and to result in doing harm; whereas every situation presents less danger if a man plants himself firmly on his own truthfulness.

And then the disquieting thought would come to him that perhaps after all epitaphs are not altogether to be trusted.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Whether we actually see through a microscope is a question philosopher Ian Hacking raises in one of the most acute criticisms of van Fraassen's skepticism about the reliability of instruments designed to see what the human senses cannot detect. Hacking's essay "Do We See through a Microscope

Character, simply stated, is doing what you say you're going to do.

Why not add another yarn? That's all we are in the end, any of us, a couple of dozen unreliable stories.

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

It is easy for journalism to be morally casual, even as it makes large moral claims for itself. So when journalism is accused by those it serves of privileging sensation before significance, celebrity before achievement, intrusion before purposeful investigation and entertainment before reliability, the charge demands a response. Journalism stands accused of being not so much a public service as a public health hazard.

A bicycle is a friend in a way that an automobile can never be. A car can be a lover: sophisticated, complex, temperamental, but one wrong step and the affair is over. The bicycle is simple, undemanding, faithful, but as with any friendship, you must work at it, maintain it, repair it where necessary, spend time with it, get to know its character.

I wouldn't join you if you were coming apart at the seams.

I showed up

BEST FRIENDS are like Stars... You don't always see Them, but you know they are always there

Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.