Quotes About Reliability

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

It is, ironically, "safer" to believe that the reason your needs are not being met is because there is something wrong with you, rather than that your parents—whom you depend on for your very survival—are actually not dependable.

Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.

intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.

In campaigns, promises are usually treated skeptically. Past positions are viewed as the one reliable way to gauge a candidate's instincts.

There's a genuineness that I hope I offer to viewers.

My hope is to be a trusted utensil for viewers. Like, literally, 'That thing works. I can rely on that thing.'

We just work hard to win the viewers respect and trust every single day.

I think viewers know CNN delivers time and time again on the most important stories.

I think once you do the unexpected, and you take the viewers to a position of discomfort about being able to rely on characters surviving, then it does completely affect the way in which the drama is viewed.

A lot of other bands have tried to go out there and say we've got views on this and views on that. But some of it I've found opportunist. Duran Duran has always been honest about everything. We've always laid everything out.

Although the views have gone up and the comments have gone up, I never drop a project and disappear.

Control orders put people not convicted of any crime under virtual house arrest based on scant evidence. Billed as a security backstop, they proved unreliable.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

What I say is that there are not half a dozen papers in the United States which tamper with the news, which publish what they know to be false. But if I thought I had done no better than that, I would be ashamed to own a paper. You have to make everyone connected with the paper believe that accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.

There are many ways to tell a story, and if I've learned anything as a therapist, it's that most people are what therapists call "unreliable narrators." That's not to say that they purposely mislead. It's more that every story has multiple threads, and they tend to leave out the strands that don't jibe with their perspectives.

People communicate through their attendance—whether they're prompt or late, cancel an hour beforehand, or don't show up at all.

Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.

It was easier to break promises when they weren't voiced.

I am the bookkeeper, after all, and as a rule the numbers don't behave too badly.