Quotes About Reliability

If you want to be trusted, be honest. If you want to be honest, be true. If you want be true, be yourself.

You should trust people by their actions, not by what is spoken out of them. Because, a person may have a heart of gold, but then again...so does an egg.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

For what people have once done they will do again indefinitely, and if you go every year to see a friend who, the first time, was not able to meet you at the appointed place, or was in bed with a chill, you will find him in bed with another chill which he has just caught, you will miss him again at another meeting-place at which he has failed to appear, for a single and unalterable reason in place of which he supposes himself to have various reasons, drawn from the circumstances.

People do not just use information that is easy to find; they even use information that they know to be of poor quality and less reliable, so long as it requires little effort to find, rather than using information they know to be of high quality and reliable, though harder to find.

CAR TAPE. October 1994. I'd like to see us abolish the jury system. Why leave the fate of our nation in the hands of these moon rocks?

Even a clock that's broken is right twice a day.

one here can tell me anything." Eric put his hands in his pockets, then looked away. "What? What?

It was one of those rare occasions when my low expectations of others went unfulfilled.

In the military, if we don't know something, we say we don't know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some highly paid charlatans in the media think it's absolutely fine to take a wild guess at the truth and then tell a couple of million people it's cast-iron fact, just in case they might be right...I hope they're proud of themselves, because they nearly broke my mom's heart....

The worse things get, the more you know you can count on men like that to always have your back. If you really want to know if someone is a true friend, get yourself into a tight spot with him or her, everyone has plenty of friends when things are good, but friendship is forged in moments of chaos.

the U.S. government will learn that we can be trusted. We know about bad guys, what they do, and, often, who they are.

A big, robust guy with blond hair and a relatively insolent grin, Shane was supersmart. I never had to tell him anything. He knew what to do at all times.

Don't promise twice what you can do at once.

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

You won't forget that," Claire assured her. "I like things written down," Tabitha mumbled. "Then you've got them for good.

Whatever you write, let it be the truth.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

NEVER TRUST A MAN WHO DOESN'T COOK

Logan, you Cavanaughs are like one-stop shopping. Police protection, legal counsel, dinner and last rites—it's all taken care of in one neat little package. Unbelievable!