Quotes About Reliability

Tears may come and go, But there's one thing I know. All my life you're a friend of mine. You can depend on me. I'll be fine... 'Cause you're a friend of mine.

Your friend has a friend don't tell him.

The historian, on the contrary, cannot experiment and can rarely observe. Instead, the historian has to collect his own evidence, knowing, all the while, that some of it is useless and much of it unreliable." -Professor Charles Homer Haskins

If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body.

The quality of results from any collaboration effort are driven by trust and respect

I run a good, honest establishment, so I'm not worried," she said, looking very worried.

The closest thing we have to a "crap detector" is a qualified librarian.

Crime, que sei, é fazer traição, ser ladrão de cavalos ou de gado... não cumprir a palavra..." — "Sempre eu cumpro a palavra dada!" — gritou de lá Zé Bebelo.

Os olhos, por enquanto, são a porta do engano; duvide deles, dos seus, não de mim.

Addie always keeps her promises. That's why my mother gave me to her.

Millstone sputtered, "I don't know where you're getting your information, G.T., but that's as bogus as a barking cat!

It is what we do routinely, not what we do rarely, that delineates the character of a person.

I don't expect to have a fully verified story of how Jo's disorder developed, but I don't think that historical accuracy is as important as what I call "emotional truth." People attach different levels of significance to the same events. No two participants in any event remember it in exactly the same way. A single broken promise, for example, among thousands of promises kept, might not be remembered by a parent, but may never be forgotten by the child who was disappointed. (34)

I promise, I will never shoot you by accident.

Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

They appear somewhat unreliable," he murmured. "Unreliable? Nonsense, Superior! Out of luck is all, and we both know how that goes, no? Why, there's not a man of them I wouldn't trust my mother to." "Are you sure?" "She's been dead these twenty years. What harm could they do her now?

The beauty o' making yourself a promise is that no one else complains if you break it.

Ray to Livvy] Aren't you used to people meaning what they say?

At issue are the ready-made concepts on which we rely and what work we call on them to do; less obvious may be an adherence to an implicit notion of the stability of concepts, more fixed than are concepts themselves.

I love the Internet, or at least I used to, but it's not where you go for the truth.

I love the Internet, or at least I used to, but it's not where you go for the truth." Edward almost asks, Where do you go for the truth? But the question feels vast, unspeakable in his throat, so instead he says good night and goes next door.

I was just thinking that people who trust are usually trustworthy, and they tend to project that quality onto others.