Quotes About Reliability

If you can't trust, you can't be trustworthy.

Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe anyone money for helping me. Apparently Jimmy knew more about me at that point than I knew about myself.

I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's still there, just like always, ready to bear-hug you again, just like in the old days.

accountability partner:

He didn't sound particularly drunk, but Bob's a professional, so you never can tell.

Friends are like buses," I uncaringly replied as I took a hit off the joint, "if you miss one, sooner or later, another will come. The names of the routes change, but the destinations don't. It will always cost something to ride--nobody rides for free. And, they'll leave your ass if you don't get with the schedule.

The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.

and the number 4 provides security.

I'm the guy that you come to when you need shit taken care of. You want a body hidden? I'll bury it. You want me to take down the bastard hurting you? I'll destroy him. Ride or fucking die, that's what I am to you. I will never choose anyone over you. And I won't make the same mistakes again this time. You can count on it.

You might think you can trust someone, but you can't. People lie. They deceive.

contemporary reports are not always completely accurate and reminiscences are not necessarily flawed.

You want to know why we're the ones responsible?" Gunny asked. I looked up into a pair of wise eyes that had seen far more than mine. "Because there's nobody else," he said.

A] friend is someone who gives you trust because they want to, not because they have to.

I'm not sure why that story came back to me while I sat huddled in Sydney's car on the way to the lake. It happened so long ago. I guess maybe it was because it gave me the assurance that when things got bad, there were certain people you could always count on.

One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one's version matches up 100% with other people's, even if it's three or four people on a conference call.

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

I went out with some old friends and we were having fun. A couple of them were very intoxicated. When I went to leave, I refused to let them drive. So when I got pulled over, I was the driver.

I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.

When I sit down and sign up for something, I vet where the people are coming from.

No dog means no disgusting surprises on carpets - thank goodness for those irrigating vacuums they sell at Canadian Tire - no hefty vet bills, no destruction of everything from eyeglasses to baseboards to legs of furniture, and no responsibility.

Even if major funding is obtained for cold fusion, conceivably the phenomenon could suffer from problems as intractable as those of hot fusion. It may never work reliably or generate enough energy to be commercially viable.

Left to my own vices, all I would own is a Corvette, and it would be broken down.