Quotes About Reliability

Public opinion polls time and again show that honesty is among the top five characteristics people want in a leader, friend, or lover.

We do not need a bodyguard of lies. We can afford to present ourselves in the totality of our acts.

Paying attention is more important to reliability than moving slowly. Because he pays close attention, a Navy pilot can land a 40,000 lb. aircraft at 140 miles per hour on a pitching carrier deck, at night, more safely than the average teenager can cut a bagel.

In long-term relationships, all the romantic gestures in the world are meaningless if you aren't trustworthy or don't do your share of the work.

You are consistently dishonorable and therefore immensely trustworthy. You always eschew principle and reward venality.

A Friend Will Help You Move. A Real Friend Will Help You Move a Body.

A lawyer needs to know the truth. No, strike that. I can't speak for my brethren. I need to know the truth.

My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.

He eyed Riven. "This gnoll is legitimate?" "I verified that independently," Riven said.

taking care to make himself always indispensable in at least two places at once

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in education these days arises, not from defects in the students,teachers or schools, not from want of equipment or technology, but from the downright ignorance of the nature of honor, virtue and kindness. Sound education... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection of childhood, on unselfish performance of teachers and on accountability and reliability.

be a good person to know," I said. "Watch

Still, I don't trust a man I haven't seen tight.

I know what keeping a promise means." "No, you only know what making a promise means," Alexander said. "You are very good at making the promise. It's keeping the promise you have a problem with.

Even if a lot of things change, his hand will surely always be this warm.

Children of mothers who are only sometimes available and who aren't reliably attuned adapt by being ambivalently attached. Because they don't know what to expect—is she going to be the nice mommy or the yelling one?—these children develop anxiety and insecurity about the maternal relationship and, as adults, a sense of all relationships as being essentially unreliable.

Det hade jag emot Människosonen. Man ville ju inte säga det rakt ut, men man kunde inte riktigt lita på honom. Han hade liksom för många att ta hand om. Man hade hela tiden en känsla av att när det var som värst, då var det någon annan som kanske hade det värre. Och då blev man ju efterlämnad.

No web tracking system I've ever seen gives perfectly accurate numbers. But dollars in the bank—that's a pretty reliable measure.

A child who grows up with no reliable human source of love, support and protection typically falls into a great deal of social unease. He "naturally" becomes reluctant to seek support from anyone, and he is forced to adopt self-sufficiency as a survival strategy.

She could see that the outer critic typically triggered her into a very old feeling and belief that "People are so unreliable – they always let you down –they just can't be trusted!

aprendemos que los flashbacks pueden causar que olvidemos que nuestros aliados probados todavía son de hecho fiables.

There is no such thing as a fixed and reliable truth (except for the statement that this is so, presumably

don't, usually. But one of the other girls is sick, and I said I'd fill in." "Oh." "I'll be back by suppertime.

The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of boring people with endless photo montages of the Chelsea Pensioners in their dress reds, or close-ups of a Pimm's Cup sprouting all kinda of flora, has yet to be proven. People like Wimbledon in the same way they like blue jeans or even their own spouses: for the pleasure yielded by their reliable sameness.