Quotes About Reliability

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

A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.

The only truly consistent are the dead.

Lui diceva: "Non sei fregato veramente finché hai da parte una buona storia, e qualcuno a cui raccontarla".

People usually define family by blood ties but I don't see it that way. I think family are the people you can rely on, the people you know who will back you up when you need it. People who can rely on you.

She had never been able to tolerate dishonesty, which she thought threatened the very heart of relationships between people. If you could not count on other people to mean what they said, or to do what they said they would do, then life could become utterly unpredictable. The fact that we could trust one another made it possible to undertake the simple tasks of life.

He decided there was a lot to be said for bulldozers. They were honest vehicles—honest in the sense that they did not purport to be anything other than what they were.

and these days I've come to prefer the more steady Bordeaux. I am no longer up to champagne from Ay: it's like a mistress: sparkling, flighty, vivacious, wayward - and not to be trusted. But Bordeaux is like a friend who in time of trouble and misfortune stands by us always, anywhere, ready to give us help, or just to share our quiet leisure. So raise your glasses - to our friend Bordeaux!

Savelitch, whose sober conduct had rendered him worthy of being selected to take charge of me.

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

So like Athos. thought Aramis; That which is actually good never alters.

Giving all due respect to the present generation of scientists who have worked hard to give us the most reliable account of nature they can, historians nonetheless find the scientific ideas of other eras intrinsically interesting, often as interesting as those of our own day, and for all we know, they are valid in their own way.

most of what goes wrong in systems goes wrong because of biased, late, or missing information.

My name is Gabriel. Should you ever need to, do not hesitate to call me. I am always available to listen, whatever the time.

Trust comes through honesty.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

believe it. Sidney wouldn't hurt anyone.

Another good form of consistency is to be honest with yourself and with your children—when you live your life in integrity, everyone can count on you to be exactly who you, wonderfully, are.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that…

Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.

on time, no matter what.

Very few experts actually measure their performance over time, and they tend to summarize their memories with anecdotes. They are right sometimes and wrong sometimes, but the anecdotes they remember tend to be more flattering to them.

Covenant vows, covenant oaths don't move. They are to be the foundation. Your feelings and sentiments do move. What happens if you make them the foundation? When they go up and down, the whole house goes up and down—like living in a volatile earthquake zone.

if we do not tell our stories faithfully, they will gradually change over time until they become quite unrecognizable. With a story like this—one that has in the minds of many supplanted the story of the Christ child—we have to remember that St. Nicholas probably would have slugged somebody over it.