Quotes About Reliability

it's ridiculous, isn't it, that after all these centuries of practice, after so many incredible advances and inventions, we still have no way of knowing when someone is lying; naturally, this both benefits and prejudices all of us equally, and may be our one remaining redoubt of freedom.

Uma pessoa nunca sabe se o que lhe dizem é verdade, nunca há a certeza de nada que não venha de nós mesmos.

Y que la sospecha permanente a su vez no es tolerable, porque resulta extenuante observarse sin cesar a uno mismo y a los otros, sobre todo al otro, al más cercano, y comparar con los recuerdos que jamás son fiables.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted.

Jack Stepney had once said of Miss Van Osburgh that she was as reliable as roast mutton. His own taste was in the line of less solid and more highly-seasoned diet; but hunger makes any fare palatable, and there had been times when Mr. Stepney had been reduced to a crust.

What is the world coming to, when you can't trust a whore named Snake?

A rusty bolt is the most difficult to withdraw; but once removed, though replaced, it will never hold securely.

La enemistad perdura. La amistad es menos segura. Sobre todo en esos tiempos.

we instinctively trust the banality and predictability of daily life. Until something larger shatters our world.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

a major charge of the argument advanced here is that most social science survey findings are not scientific enough. They violate one's common everyday breeze-tasting sense of life precisely because they do not meet the standards of validity, reliability, and comprehensiveness that the best scientists have always insisted on

I feel a deep sense of security in this single-mindedness of freight trains

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to.

No sabíais que si el hombre promete demasiado a menudo más de lo que puede mantener, también amenaza no menos a menudo, más de lo que se atreve luego a cumplir? ¿No sabíais que la iniquidad no se funda sólo en sus propias fuerzas, sino también en la credulidad y el miedo ajenos?

There is a saying that, when it comes to friends, you should have very few, but to those few be very close.

No sabíais que si el hombre promete demasiado a menudo más de lo que puede mantener, también amenaza no menos a menudo, más de lo que se atreve luego a cumplir?

numbers. "I'll be back with the phone in a few

Urmson and his colleagues learned that as their technology improved, the humans using it would become less reliable. "We realized that this was going to be much much harder to do than we had thought," said engineer Dave Ferguson. "It just became clear that, look, if we can't rely on the driver to pay attention, or to hand over control to, then basically we just have to solve the whole problem. We need to have this vehicle not need the driver.

Don't lie, don't steal and always be early.

Trust was such a delicate thing, so fragile, not easily earned and harder to repair.

But I've also come to see our respect for overwork as, perhaps a bit paradoxically, intellectually lazy. Measuring time is literally the easiest way to assess someone's dedication and productivity, but it's also very unreliable.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.