Quotes About Reliability

For anyone who understands freedom, it is simply inescapable that freedom requires truth, a shared sense of truth, and therefore trustworthiness and trust.

Don't trust anyone over thirty," the 1960s radicals cried. "Don't trust anyone under three hundred," came Thomas Oden's wise reply. "Vox temporis" (the voice of the times) is no more trustworthy than "vox populi" (the voice of the people) when set against "vox dei" (the voice of God).

He must live up to his friend's trust— that alone mattered.

When you come face to face with absolute reliability, you tend, first of all, to burst into silly laughter. You just come all undone. It's like-this is a funny way to put it, I know, but it's like chuckling with relief after loosening your belt. Young men, if ever the one you love bursts out laughing the moment she sees you, you are to be congratulated. By no means must you reproach her. She has merely been overwhelmed by the absolute reliability she senses in you.

Credibility requires sincerity.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

A life of faith is not a life of one glorious mountaintop experience after another, like soaring on eagles' wings, but is a life of day-in and day-out consistency; a life of walking without fainting (see Isaiah 40:31).

I will never leave you"—not for any reason; not my sin, selfishness, stubbornness, nor waywardness. Have I really let God say to me that He will never leave me? If I have not truly heard this assurance of God, then let me listen again.

Only a dog I" Well, dogs cannot lie, or bribe, or don a surplice, or pick a lock, or go bull-baiting in sharemarkets, or preside as chairmen over public companies; we can only, if we are dishonest, run off with a bone in a most open and foolish fashion, and get instantly whipped for our pains So that there is one art at least in which men are decidedly in advance of us; and in deference to that superexcellcnce in stealing,

Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.

When it came to keeping a secret, that kid was a time bomb.

She had vowed never to shed one more tear over a worthless man. But it went against all that she knew to imagine Eli as worthless. He had always been the one guy she could run to. The one guy she could believe in. The one guy who was living, breathing evidence that she was worthy of love and care. Obviously, he no longer loved or cared.

Don't trust anyone over 30.

Gator lifted the needle and dabbed at the decorated flesh, frowning. The cases on the Mimosa generally had terrible skin, but they were docile enough to make a good filing system, considering you could usually find them where you left them – they didn't move around much on their own, and unlike other kinds of hardcopy, they seldom got stolen.

Stop trying to trust people you already know you can't trust!

I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn't taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.

He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did... well, he could deal with Charles

Yes, sir," she said, clearly not believing him. He reminded himself that a man's word didn't count for much in this modern day.

The next time you leap into a burning building after me, you'd better make damned sure I'm in there. And wear your shoes, damn it.

There's a lot of truth in the adage that all cars named after animals are lemons.

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

The kids come to us by word of mouth – we've been in business for 25 years, so one person tells the other.

One has to be aware of so-called witnesses.

Always," I say to him. "Every time.