Quotes About Reliability

I still find myself reaching out and knocking twice on our wooden cutting board. Because you can never be too sure when it comes to the things that matter most.

He tells me they do, but it's out of service. I feel a wave of relief, until he hands me a cordless phone from behind the bar and says I'm welcome to use it if it's not long distance. I stare down at the receiver, thinking that this is precisely why Scottie, my best friend since the first grade, told me to stay in and not drink. Batten down the hatches, he had coached me from our hometown of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, explaining that I wasn't ready to be tested by a buzz

Why are we so afraid of the body? Is it because it's a mess, unpredictable, mortal, unreliable? We take pains to perfect it, to keep it healthy, but we probably wouldn't go to such extremes if we weren't scared to death to lose it. A paradox: we pretend we don't need it, that it's our minds that matter, and yet the body is the thing we can't ignore and that knocks our thinking minds flat to the floor.

I don't trust memory, anyway. Why should I? Memories, however undependable, ought to be the stuff on the sand when the tides of experience recedes. As long as they're part of that process, there's something valid about them, something that ties them to real life.

The truth was quicker than a lie, so I told it.

Either Jesus is a reliable guide, or he is not.

Libby seems a good sort. I don't know that I'm

The Hitchhiker's Guide is a hundred percent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable.

Trust me. I haven't been wrong yet.

Butler," he called, his voice thin and childlike in the wind. "Yes, Artemis, what?" "If something goes wrong, wait for me. No matter how it looks, I will return. I will bring them all back.

That bloody guide lies all the time. It's more lies than truth.' Ford spouted the standard line: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide is a hundred per cent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable

Mooi schot.'... Artemis stak haar de munt toe. 'Nee,' zei Holly. 'Hou hem maar. Om je te helpen herinneren... dat er diep onder die lagen onbetrouwbaarheid toch nog een vonkje fatsoen is.

A bad person's character cannot be trusted, it's weak and indecisive, easily won over by different impressions at different times.

But pieces of paper do not stop bullets and rockets. Paper promises that fall from the sky cannot be trusted.

not keeping a promise is the same as lying!

Tools that look glossy but shatter under stress are not good long-term value. Unix

The fallibility of human beings guarantees that no technological system will ever be infallible.

We have found out… that we cannot trust some people who are nonconformists,' declared Ray Krock, one of the founders of Mcdonald's, angered by some of his franchisees. 'We will make conformists out of them in a hurry… The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.

A brand offers a feeling of reassurance when its products are always and everywhere the same.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

He] was what people called a man's man. He fixed things and he had a deep laugh. He looked like he could carry you out of a burning building and he looked like the kind of man who would go back in to get your poodle. And even though he made fun of his own looks [...], I liked his face.

Yeah, he said, you'll know he's the one because when he says he'll do anything for you, he means it. Don't you fall for the big hearts and flowers, acting like it's the movies. Bunch of bullshit, he said. Pardon me. You want the guy who'll get your medicine in the middle of the night, even in a blizzard, even after twenty years. You want the guy who shows you every day, shoveling the walk, carrying your groceries, shows you how much he loves you. It's not about talking the talk, Eva.

When you're in a train and it breaks down, well, there you is. But when you're in a plane and it breaks down, there you AIN'T.