Quotes and Sayings about Trust
"With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Son, Act, First, Russia)
"I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Home, Trust, Kids, President, Will)
"Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place."
- Roy Acuff
(Related: Trust, Worry)
"How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers."
- Amy Adams
(Related: Trust, Work, Character, Writers)
"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: People)
"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Trust, Purpose, Lies, Nothing, Press)
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
- John Adams
(Related: Government, Power, Trust, Danger, Liberty, Living, Man, Maxim, Public)
"Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Trust, Instinct, Today)
"For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Trust, Disease, Friends, Tyranny)
"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Trust, Heart, Friend, Poison)
"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."
- Aesop
(Related: Trust, Advice, Difficulties, Man)
"None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Trust, Israel)
"Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything."
- Steve Albini
(Related: Music, Work, Trust, People)
"A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences."
- Steve Albini
(Related: Trust, Reason, Will)
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Eyes, Influence, Self, Spirit, Will)
"A usurper always distrusts the whole world."
- Vittorio Alfieri
(Related: World)
"Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Government, People, Bureaucracy, Planning, Will)
"Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me."
- Tim Allen
(Related: Trust, End, Woman, Words)
"I don't really trust a sane person."
- Lyle Alzado
(Related: Trust)
"Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Trust, People, Profession, states, United)
"The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Trust, Betrayal)
"The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Intelligence, Policy, Distrust, Problems)
"To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: People, Burden, states, United)
"Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Trust, Credit)
"Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Trust, Betrayal)
"Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Trust, People, Betrayal)
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Work, Talent, Light)
"In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe."
- Tori Amos
(Related: Love, Trust, Kids, Lust, Man)
"The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty."
- David Amram
(Related: Peace, Society, People, Idea, Culture, Trying)
"Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people."
- Namie Amuro
(Related: Friendship, Time, Trust, People)
"My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Wife, Strength)
"We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time."
- John Anderson
(Related: Time, Trust, Chance, Confidence, Right)
"We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy."
- Walter Anderson
(Related: Love, Trust, Joy)
"In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment."
- Victoria de los Angeles
(Related: Reality, Understanding)
"The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Love, Trust, Women, Revolution, Necessity, Sadness)
"You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change."
- Sharron Angle
(Related: Change, Faith, War, Trust, People, Hope, Thoughts, Ideology)
"Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia."
- Piers Anthony
(Related: Distrust, Folk, Paranoia, Will, Writers, Wrong)
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: God, People, Distrust)
"I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: God, People, Distrust)
"Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: Trust, Help, Law, Will, Woman)
"When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Trust, People, Talk)
"Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds."
- Anne Archer
(Related: Business, Actors, Instinct, Managers)
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
- Aristotle
(Related: People, Mistrust)
"Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Time, Trust)
"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
- Athenaeus
(Related: Trust, Friends, Old, Wine, Wood)
"He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted."
- Red Auerbach
"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Age, Trust, Friends, Old, Wine, Wood)
"There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now."
- Kevin Bacon
(Related: Financial, Greed, Now)
"Trust should be the basis for all our moral training."
- Robert Baden-Powell
(Related: Trust, Training)
"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
- James A. Baldwin
(Related: Country, Mind)
"I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason."
- Stanley Baldwin
(Related: Trust, Instinct, Man, Reason, Woman)
"It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth."
- Arthur Balfour
(Related: Truth, Enthusiasm, World)
"What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'"
- Steve Ballmer
(Related: Trust, People, Question, Years)
"Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences."
- Henry Campbell Bannerman
(Related: Trust, Confidence, Gentlemen, May)
"The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision."
- Haley Barbour
(Related: Decision)
"I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella."
- Haley Barbour
(Related: Peace, People, American, Beginning, Country, Understanding, Weapons, World)
"Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence."
- Daniel Barenboim
(Related: Trust, Chance, Democracy, First, Now, Violence, Will)
"The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Trust, Fish)
"The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization."
- Max Baucus
(Related: Trust, Fact, Pretty, Security, Today, Will)
"I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?"
- Jean Baudrillard
(Related: Money, Confession)
"One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money."
- Birch Bayh
(Related: Money, People, Party, Prosperity)
"You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net."
- Jennifer Beals
(Related: Friend)
"If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Trust, Public, Want)
"It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol."
- Xavier Becerra
(Related: Time, Decision, Alcohol, Drinking, First, Kids, Parents)
"That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things."
- Boris Becker
(Related: Men, Trust, People, Athletes, Old, Support)
"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best."
- Max Beerbohm
(Related: Mediocrity)
"We grow in time to trust the future for our answers."
- Ruth Benedict
(Related: Time, Trust, Answers, Future)
"The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers."
- Pope Benedict XVI
(Related: Work, Act, Fact)
"Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Trust, Work)
"Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Secrets)
"While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course."
- Larry Bird
(Related: Nature, Trust, Day, Facts, Formula, Future, Will)
"Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe."
- Claudia Black
(Related: Trust, Perceptions)
"Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious."
- Hugo Black
(Related: Laws)
"In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do."
- Hugo Black
(Related: Government, War, Newspapers, Vietnam)
"Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois."
- Rod Blagojevich
(Related: Politics, Trust, People, Opportunity, Decisions)
"Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion."
- Eubie Blake
(Related: Trust, Friend, Emotion, Envy)
"People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Life, Trust, People, Road)
"I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Trust, Work, Environment, Film)
"Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Life, Trust)
"The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization."
- Franz Boas
(Related: Civilization, Disease, Distrust, Nations)
"And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility."
- John Boehner
(Related: Government, Trust, People, Values, America, Constitution, Freedom, Liberty, Responsibility)
"House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust."
- John Boehner
(Related: Trust, Hope, Leaders, Now, President, Public, Public trust, Republicans, Senate, Support, United, Will)
"I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person."
- Brigitte Boisselier
(Related: Trust, Theory)
"I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Life, Women, Sex, Woman)
"When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer."
- Corrie Ten Boom
(Related: Trust)
"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
- Corrie Ten Boom
(Related: Trust, God, Future)
"Don't trust anyone over 30."
- Pat Boone
(Related: Trust)
"Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you."
- Margaret Bourke-White
(Related: Work, Friend)
"Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid."
- Clara Bow
(Related: Trust, Life, Now)
"You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it."
- Erskine Bowles
(Related: Trust, Duty, Want)
"When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Trust, People, Conviction, Deep, May, Want)
"We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through."
- Arthur Boyd
(Related: Education, Trust, People, Hope, Environment, Paradise, Talk, Will)
"Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it."
- Robert Brady
(Related: Trust, Facts, Nation, Project, Will)
"If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good."
- Eric Braeden
(Related: Trust, Home, Children, Consequences, Kids)
"Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world."
- Sergey Brin
(Related: Successful, Being, Difference, Want, World)
"Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged."
- Claude M. Bristol
(Related: Trust)
"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office."
- David Broder
(Related: Office, Presidency, Years)
"She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else."
- Anne Bronte
(Related: Father, People, Cats, Children, Dogs, Poor)
"The best proof of love is trust."
- Joyce Brothers
(Related: Love, Trust, Proof)
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
- Joyce Brothers
(Related: Trust, Facts)
"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."
- Joyce Brothers
(Related: Life, Being, Compliment)
"Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open."
- James Broughton
(Related: Open, Uniqueness)
"With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech."
- Chris Brown
(Related: Trust, Life, Being, Fame, Will)
"Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust."
- Jonathan Brown
(Related: Trust, People, Loyalty, Want, Years)
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Trust, Work, Creativity, Hope)
"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time."
- Robert Browning
(Related: Beauty, Nature, Time, Trust, Autumn, End, Laws, Spring)
"Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years."
- Craig Bruce
(Related: Trust, Past, School, Years)
"To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity."
- Steven Brust
(Related: Trust, Fear, Action, Conformity, Danger, Eccentricity, Fashion, Understanding)
"I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more."
- Lindsey Buckingham
(Related: Trust)
"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
(Related: Government, People, Boston, First, states, United, University)
"We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less."
- Ralph Bunche
(Related: Country, Fight, Fools, Idiots, Race, World)
"The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become."
- Gisele Bundchen
(Related: Trust, Intuition)
"On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Success, Trust, People, Ability)
"I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Trust, Men, People, Footsteps)
"I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most."
- Gary Burghoff
(Related: Trust, Vote)
"People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Trust, Time, People, Idea, Example, Speech)
"The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Power, Trust, Freedom, World, Years)
"But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation."
- Kate Bush
(Related: Trust, Dress, Living, Reputation, Royalty)
"The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: People, Distrust, Press, Service)
"And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure."
- William Allen Butler
(Related: Trust, Beauty, State)
"I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it."
- David Byrne
(Related: Trust)
"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."
- David Byrne
(Related: Trust, Artist, Responsibility)
"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive."
- Lord Byron
(Related: Trust, Motive)
"All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors."
- John Calvin
(Related: Trust, Blessings, Neighbors)
"Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult."
- Julia Cameron
(Related: Faith, Trust, Dream, Courage, Will)
"I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender."
- Kirk Cameron
(Related: Trust, God, Day, Reason, Salvation, Today)
"I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Trust, God, Heart, Hope, Guilt, Infinite, Worship)
"And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good."
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
(Related: Death, Trust, Republicans, Saying)
"And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way."
- Eric Cantor
(Related: Trust, Money, People, America, Republicans, Sense)
"We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions."
- George Carey
(Related: Trust, Decisions, Politicians)
"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community."
- Andrew Carnegie
(Related: Trust, Wealth, Community)
"Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund."
- Howie Carr
(Related: Trust, Now)
"I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people."
- Tia Carrere
(Related: Thought, People, Wrong)
"I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional."
- Jon Carroll
(Related: Time, Idea, Angels, Being, Famous)
"I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself."
- James Carville
(Related: Trust, America, Party, Will)
"The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Life, Eyes, Will, Wind)
"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."
- Willa Cather
(Related: God, Women, Talent, Wonder)
"The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them."
- Camillo di Cavour
(Related: Men, Man, Mistakes, Will)
"The power to investigate is a great public trust."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Power, Trust, Public, Public trust)
"Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it."
- Orlando Cepeda
(Related: Trust, People, Fight, Wrong)
"You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible."
- Anton Chekhov
(Related: Life, Trust, People)
"I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow."
- Cher
(Related: Trust, People, Force, Friends)
"I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy."
- Cher
(Related: Trust)
"Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: Love, Acquaintance, Distrust, Reason)
"A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: Man, Sense, Trifles)
"I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery."
- Kate Chopin
(Related: Trust, Editors, Flattery, Giving, Questions, Secrets, Will, Woman)
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Trust, God)
"Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them."
- Claudia Christian
(Related: Trust)
"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Money, Trust)
"Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?"
- Chris Christie
(Related: Change, Government, Trust, People, Question, Trouble, Wonder)
"Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts."
- John Chrysostom
(Related: Poor, Reason)
"When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also."
- John Chrysostom
(Related: Men, Sex, Church, Care, Majority)
"I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides."
- Thomas Haden Church
(Related: Trust, Relationships)
"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down."
- John Ciardi
(Related: Trust, Concern, Pen, Theory)
"Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Man, Reputation)
"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Trust, Truth, Falsehood, Man)
"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Trust, Hope, Confidence, Feeling, Mind)
"You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race."
- J. Reuben Clark
(Related: Blessings, Care, Freedom, Land, Providence, Race)
"If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: Work, God, Christ, Followers, Living, Man, Satan, Sin, Spirit, Will)
"For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men."
- Albert Claude
(Related: Faith, Men, Trust, Courage, Ethics, Mankind, Now, Past, Sight, Spirit, Tolerance, Will)
"Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?"
- Albert Claude
(Related: Life, Men, Time, Behavior, Information, Man)
"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people."
- Henry Clay
(Related: Government, Trust, People)
"War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men."
- Georges Clemenceau
(Related: Men, War, Military)
"Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust."
- Grover Cleveland
(Related: Trust, Public, Public trust)
"In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it."
- Hillary Clinton
(Related: Business, Finance, Trust, People, Jobs, Journalism, Law, Medicine, Profession, Running, Space)
"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."
- Richard Cobden
(Related: Peace, War)
"We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well."
- Thad Cochran
(Related: Government, Trust, People, Opportunity, Benefits, Help, Obligation, Today)
"You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Art, Trust, Man)
"Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: God, Faithfulness)
"Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Trust)
"Our cattlemen have given us the safest, most abundant, most affordable beef supply in the world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country, so does the American public."
- Norm Coleman
(Related: Trust, American, Confidence, Country, Judgment, Public, World)
"A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Imagination, Nature, Trust, Act, Borrowing, Memory)
"Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody."
- John Churton Collins
(Related: Trust, Man)
"My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy."
- Judy Collins
(Related: Death, Life, Love, Son, Heart, Hope, Healing, Loss, Tragedy, Will)
"Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior."
- William Collins
(Related: Fault, Mistrust)
"Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust."
- Chuck Colson
(Related: Trust, Deep)
"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Power, Man, Will, Wine)
"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."
- Confucius
(Related: Distrust, Friends)
"Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him."
- Jennifer Connelly
(Related: Thought, Diaries, Water)
"That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about."
- Jennifer Connelly
(Related: Trust, Work, People, Idea, Feeling, Project, Will)
"If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end."
- Jennifer Connelly
(Related: Trust, Work, End, Want, Will)
"Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on."
- Billy Connolly
(Related: Trust, Man, Tea)
"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."
- Joseph Conrad
(Related: Life, Love, Trust, Heart, Hope, Man)
"He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense."
- Joseph Conrad
(Related: Power, Trust, Argument, Right, Sense, Sound, Word)
"Who would not rather trust and be deceived?"
- Eliza Cook
(Related: Trust)
"People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Government, Trust, People, Company, Self)
"Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance."
- Calvin Coolidge
(Related: Trust, Chance, Results)
"I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them."
- Chris Cooper
(Related: Being, Horses)
"I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright."
- Gregory Corso
(Related: Trust, People, Sense)
"And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even."
- Katie Couric
(Related: Trust, Being, Day, Respect, Television)
"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
- Malcolm Cowley
(Related: Distrust)
"Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance."
- Daniel Craig
(Related: Trust, Balance, Being)
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."
- Frank Crane
(Related: Trust, May, Will)
"Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: Trust, God)
"Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: Trust)
"I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: America, Man)
"I don't trust the Bee Gee's because there's no way they could always be happy."
- Jon Crosby
(Related: Trust)
"What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance."
- Tom Daschle
(Related: Acceptance, Distrust, Now)
"I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection."
- Kristin Davis
(Related: Trust, Sex, God, Connection)
"Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, 'Don't trust in Guided By Voices.' You were there; was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but they're not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad?"
- Kim Deal
(Related: Trust, End, Night, Saying)
"We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is."
- Howard Dean
(Related: Money, Trust, Balance, Conservative, President, Republican, Republicans, Right, Years)
"Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money."
- Howard Dean
(Related: Money, Trust, President, Republican, Republicans, Years)
"Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated."
- James Dean
(Related: Trust, Belief)
"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence."
- Democritus
(Related: Men, Trust, Prudence, Silly, Worth)
"Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Dreams, Trust, People, Acting, Being)
"Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for."
- Johnny Depp
(Related: Trust, Man)
"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."
- Rene Descartes
(Related: Time, Trust, Senses)
"David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character."
- William Devane
(Related: Trust, Character, Actor, Actors, Writing)
"Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave."
- Charles Dibdin
(Related: Trust, Drinking, Nothing, Thinking)
"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it."
- Charles Dickens
(Related: Men, Trust, Idea, Honesty, Day, Dishonesty, Nonsense, Quantity, Will)
"I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files."
- Whitfield Diffie
(Related: Thought, People, Control, Choice, Surrender)
"If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration."
- John Dingell
(Related: Trust, War, Peace, Being, Congress, Facts, Legislation, President, Question, Senate)
"I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Power, People, Trust, Exercise)
"Youth is the trustee of prosperity."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Prosperity, Youth)
"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Age, Future, Nation, Posterity, Suffering, Youth)
"The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Nation, Posterity, Youth)
"I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust."
- Edward Dmytryk
(Related: Family, Sacrifice, Being, Career, Defense, Distrust, Party)
"First cuts are a bitch for a director, because it's been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and you're going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it."
- Richard Donner
(Related: Trust, Time, Film, First, Hate, Months)
"That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you."
- Richard Donner
(Related: Trust, Performance)
"Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film."
- Richard Donner
(Related: Trust, Film)
"When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave."
- Vincent D'Onofrio
(Related: Trust, Character, Actor, Will)
"The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you."
- Illeana Douglas
(Related: Trust)
"Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty."
- Norman Douglas
(Related: Authority, Distrust, Duty, First)
"If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level."
- Rita Dove
(Related: Trust, Choice, Spirit, Want)
"A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
"Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands."
- Peter Drucker
(Related: Power, Trust, Customer, Information, Service)
"The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry."
- David Duchovny
(Related: Trust, People, Key, Want)
"I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other."
- David Duchovny
(Related: Love)
"Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it."
- Georges Duhamel
(Related: Trust, Memory, Prizes)
"Trust everybody, but cut the cards."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Trust, Cards)
"The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it."
- Andrea Dworkin
(Related: Men, Women, Brotherhood, Cooperation, Project)
"I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this."
- Bernie Ebbers
(Related: People, Idea)
"The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children."
- Marian Wright Edelman
(Related: Trust, People, Children, Future, Will)
"George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust."
- Jim Edgar
(Related: Trust, Leader)
"She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect."
- Anne Edwards
(Related: Attention, Body, Expression, Familiarity)
"These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: Trust, Work, Energy, Will)
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Truth)
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Truth)
"This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Trust, Fear, Community, Hate, Respect, World)
"Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: President, University, Years)
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: History, Care, Freedom)
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
- George Eliot
(Related: Distrust, Loneliness, Lonely)
"I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions."
- Shannon Elizabeth
(Related: Dad, Trust, Decisions, Open, Parents)
"You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: Trust, Jokes)
"I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit."
- Keith Emerson
(Related: People, Credit, Production, Television)
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Men, Trust, Will)
"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Trust, End, Instinct, Reason)
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Trust)
"What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Experience, Truth)
"God has entrusted me with myself."
- Epictetus
(Related: God)
"Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership."
- Bob Etheridge
(Related: Leadership, Trust, Corruption, Office, Public, Public trust, Republican)
"To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man."
- Euripides
(Related: Courage, Man)
"I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't."
- Marianne Faithfull
"It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'"
- Mike Farrell
(Related: Trust, People, Financial, Saying)
"I don't want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care."
- Russ Feingold
(Related: Government, Power, Care, Restraint, Want)
"There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome."
- Sherilyn Fenn
(Related: Life, Peace, Trust, Work, Being, Worry)
"You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it."
- W. C. Fields
(Related: Trust)
"You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling."
- Ralph Fiennes
(Related: Distrust, Feeling)
"The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture."
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Related: Architecture, Trust, Folly, Pleasure)
"I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences."
- Ronald Fisher
(Related: Experience, Men, Women, Realism, Research, Sanity, Statistics, Teaching)
"I trust my mum with anything. If I have a problem, my mum is always the first person I go to."
- Richard Fleeshman
(Related: Trust, First)
"I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power."
- Fernando Flores
(Related: Power, Trust, Truth, Heart, Communication, Imprisonment)
"When trust improves, the mood improves."
- Fernando Flores
(Related: Trust)
"In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools."
- Mark Foley
(Related: Education, Faith, Trust, Discipline, Compassion, Ideals, Schools, Understanding)
"I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale."
- Peter Fonda
(Related: Trust)
"Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people."
- Jean de La Fontaine
(Related: Love, Power, Truth, People, Virtue, Abuse, Will)
"He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly."
- B. C. Forbes
(Related: Faith, Trust, Courage, Hope, Confidence, May, Will, World)
"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Life, Trust, People)
"I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Men, Blood, Distrust, Man, Pleasure)
"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline."
- Michel Foucault
(Related: Society, Work, Discipline, Prison)
"All political power is a trust."
- Charles James Fox
(Related: Power, Trust)
"Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own."
- George Fox
(Related: Care, Man, May)
"Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her."
- Francis I
(Related: Woman)
"Distrust and caution are the parents of security."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Caution, Distrust, Parents, Security)
"The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people."
- Paulo Freire
(Related: Trust, People, Confidence, Leaders)
"As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself."
- David Friedman
(Related: Time, Trust, Songs, Wind)
"There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life."
- Klaus Fuchs
(Related: Life, People, Information, Name, Sight)
"One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos."
- Alberto Fujimori
(Related: Trust, Mistakes)
"The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them."
- J. William Fulbright
(Related: Government, Trust, Idea, Vietnam)
"I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust."
- Christopher Gadsden
(Related: Trust, Liberty)
"In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly."
- Neil Gaiman
(Related: Trust, People, First, Learning)
"I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul."
- Ava Gardner
(Related: Trust, Soul, Heart, Acting)
"Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues."
- Jesse James Garrett
(Related: Trust, Design, First, Gain, Help, Information, Support)
"When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously."
- Shakti Gawain
(Related: Life, Being)
"You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well."
- Bob Geldof
(Related: Trust, Lies, Politicians, Speech)
"I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust."
- Geronimo
(Related: Trust, Honor)
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat."
- Gina Gershon
(Related: Trust, People, Ritual)
"My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself."
- Balthazar Getty
(Related: Mom, Trust, Care)
"As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back."
- Maurice Gibb
(Related: Trust, Wife, Feelings, Winning, Appreciation, Children, Now)
"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Trust, Dreams, Eternity)
"Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself."
- Walter Gilbert
(Related: Science, Trust, Belief)
"If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance."
- William Gilbert
(Related: Trust, Chance, World)
"You can't trust anybody with power."
- Newt Gingrich
(Related: Power, Trust)
"The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too."
- Greg Ginn
(Related: Art, Trust, People)
"The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth."
- David Ginola
(Related: Trust, Truth)
"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
- William E. Gladstone
(Related: Trust, People, Fear, Conservatism, Distrust, Liberalism, Prudence)
"Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis."
- Rob Glaser
(Related: Trust, People, Choice, Customer, Reality)
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Trust, Will)
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Trust, Will)
"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Trust, Will)
"Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go."
- Natalie Goldberg
(Related: Trust, Love, Will)
"It's a delight to trust somebody so completely."
- Jeff Goldblum
(Related: Trust, Delight)
"I love to be directed. They can trust me and go."
- Jeff Goldblum
(Related: Love, Trust)
"You can never trust what you read."
- William Goldman
(Related: Trust)
"I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone."
- Barry Goldwater
(Related: Trust, Nixon)
"I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks."
- Sue Grafton
(Related: Trust, Care, Focus, Rest, Writing)
"The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth."
- Bob Graham
(Related: Trust, Truth, Congress, President, Will, Word)
"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."
- Ulysses S. Grant
(Related: Trust, Friend, Adversity, Prosperity)
"I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again."
- Ulysses S. Grant
(Related: Life, Trust, People, Being, Man)
"Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets."
- Charles Grassley
(Related: Trust, Financial, Selling, Integrity, Research, Secrets)
"We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people."
- Benny Green
(Related: Trust, People, Challenge, Fun)
"We have only God on our side; they have 'In God We Trust' on their side."
- Willie Green
(Related: God, Trust)
"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
- Graham Greene
(Related: Life)
"The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time."
- Harold H. Greene
(Related: Government, Time, Laws)
"We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real."
- Alan Greenspan
(Related: Trust, Effect)
"Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Trust, Home, Building, Will)
"I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment."
- Angelina Grimke
(Related: Time, Trust, Children, Occupation, Will)
"In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him."
- G. I. Gurdjieff
(Related: Faith, Trust, Man)
"The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God."
- William Gurnall
(Related: Trust, God, Christian)
"If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate."
- Jasmine Guy
(Related: People, Mistrust, Racism)
"Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy."
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
(Related: Trust, Now)
"Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business."
- Marvin Hagler
(Related: Business, Trust, People)
"Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust."
- Jessica Hahn
(Related: Trust, God)
"I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink."
- William Halsey
(Related: Trust, Fighting, Man)
"Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Age, Trust, Body)
"If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time."
- Mark Hanna
(Related: Time, Trust, Will)
"Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?"
- Garrett Hardin
(Related: Trust, Family, Morality, Fear, Bible, Certainty)
"God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it."
- Steve Harvey
(Related: God, Time, People, Successful, Forget, Now, Right, Will)
"Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow."
- Orrin Hatch
(Related: Government, Internet, Today, Tomorrow)
"Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you."
- Richard Hatch
(Related: People, Buying, Colors, Marketing)
"We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me."
- Dan Hawkins
(Related: Trust, Career)
"This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects."
- Friedrich August von Hayek
(Related: Science, Control, May, Principles)
"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Happiness, Trust, Friendship, Life, Love, Marriage, Security)
"But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based."
- Seamus Heaney
(Related: Change, Trust, Truth, Perception, Possibilities)
"I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision."
- Christie Hefner
(Related: People, Decision, Right)
"Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust."
- Gustav Heinemann
(Related: Trust)
"Disarmament requires trust."
- Gustav Heinemann
(Related: Trust)
"One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust."
- Gustav Heinemann
(Related: Trust, Open)
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
- Ernest Hemingway
(Related: Trust)
"It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Trust, Miracles)
"It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with."
- Matthew Henry
(Related: Business, First, Public)
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"
- Patrick Henry
(Related: Defense)
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: People, Action, Distrust, Want)
"Men trust their ears less than their eyes."
- Herodotus
(Related: Men, Trust, Eyes)
"I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs."
- James Herriot
(Related: People, Hope, Animals, Care, Needs, Will)
"I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us."
- James Herriot
(Related: Trust, People, Animals, Children)
"Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers."
- Hesiod
(Related: Woman)
"You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference."
- Patricia Hewitt
(Related: Trust, Difference, Living, Promises, Talking)
"I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more."
- Patricia Hewitt
(Related: Politics, People, Values, First, Right)
"When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with."
- Faith Hill
(Related: Mom, Trust, People, Children, Nothing)
"I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Men, Trust, Friends, Girlfriends)
"He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Trust, Father, People, Want)
"It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom."
- Dee Hock
(Related: Wisdom, Trust, Ability, Humility, Judgment, Perspective, Reward, Tolerance)
"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Trust, Cheating, Feeling, Right, World)
"A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?"
- James Hogg
(Related: May)
"God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body."
- Raymond Holliwell
(Related: Intelligence, Trust, God, Blind, Body, Mind)
"When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith."
- Ernest Holmes
(Related: Faith, Certainty, Distrust, Doubt, Prayer, Universe)
"I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing."
- Katie Holmes
(Related: Trust, Nothing)
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Related: Money, Trust)
"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: Death, Trust, Dying, Killing, Mind, Thinking)
"I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Trust)
"Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them."
- Horace
(Related: Open, Will)
"What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye."
- Horace
(Related: Impression, Eye)
"Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow."
- Horace
(Related: Trust, Day, Tomorrow)
"We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same."
- David Horowitz
(Related: Trust, Beliefs, Doctors, Religious)
"Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment."
- Laurence Housman
(Related: Time, Trust, Hope, Punishment, Suicide, Will)
"When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck."
- Edgar Watson Howe
(Related: Trust, Luck, Man, Reason)
"America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process."
- Arianna Huffington
(Related: Trust, America, Country, Democracy, Fact, Leaders, Longing, Political leaders)
"The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society."
- Shirley Hufstedler
(Related: Society, People, America, Children, Participation)
"When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: God, Destruction, Suicide, World)
"Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Evil, Mistrust)
"Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?"
- David Hunt
(Related: Trust, Life, Help, Problems)
"Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe."
- Douglas Hurd
(Related: Distrust, Europe, Germany, Growing up, Years)
"Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all."
- Josefa Iloilo
(Related: Trust, Confidence)
"We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration."
- Josefa Iloilo
(Related: Development, Inspiration, Strength, Distrust, Diversity)
"A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings."
- Dean Inge
"Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove."
- Dean Inge
(Related: Faith, Trust, God, Bereavement, Challenge)
"And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with."
- Jeremy Irons
(Related: Work, Trust, People, Desire, Now)
"The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases."
- Lance Ito
(Related: Trust, Consideration, Effect)
"The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about."
- Charles James
(Related: Cure, Past)
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Government, History, Angels, Kings, Man, Question)
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Government, People)
"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Trust, Man, Property, Public, Public trust)
"I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Men, Fear, May, Result, Will)
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Government, People)
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Experience, Government, Power, Time, Tyranny)
"This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment."
- Jim Jeffords
(Related: Environmental, Trust, People, Policy, American, Credibility, President)
"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust."
- Gertrude Jekyll
(Related: Trust, Garden, Patience)
"I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind."
- Edward Jenner
(Related: Trust, Hope, Mankind)
"And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust."
- Elton John
(Related: Love, Trust, Age, Day, Loyalty)
"And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life."
- Elton John
(Related: Business, Life)
"The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone."
- Pope John XXIII
(Related: Equality, Peace, Trust, Nations)
"We all must learn to dig down deep inside, trust that inner voice, and not be afraid to face and forgive ourselves."
- Darren L. Johnson
(Related: Trust, Deep, Voice)
"I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race."
- James Weldon Johnson
(Related: Death, People, Act, Being, Conscience, Race, Salvation)
"What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Politics, People, Distrust, Party, President, Selfishness, Suspicion, United, Will)
"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Being, Motives, Vanity)
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Trust, Wrong)
"I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble."
- Angelina Jolie
(Related: Trust, Being, Choice, Fun, Trouble, Want, Wrong)
"When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble."
- Angelina Jolie
(Related: Trust, Trouble)
"We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families."
- Marion Jones
(Related: Trust, World)
"Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need."
- Ben Jonson
(Related: Ambition)
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
- Michael Jordan
(Related: Life, Winning, Career, Games, Succeed)
"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Future, Mistrust, Past, Present, Respect, Safety)
"People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right."
- Marcy Kaptur
(Related: Government, Trust, People, Hope, Losing, Right)
"The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society."
- Irving R. Kaufman
(Related: Society, Trust, Court, Public, Public trust)
"As you suggested I have in the following disputed certain passages, trusting you will do me the justice either to modify the same or add a note in the new edition stating that I dispute,' etc."
- Denis Kearney
(Related: Justice, Will)
"I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough."
- Christine Keeler
(Related: Trust)
"In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment."
- Florence Kelley
(Related: Chance, Man, Order)
"The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this."
- Jack Kelley
(Related: Work, People, Now)
"Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Care, Children, Harm, Wage)
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Truth, People, Ideas, Values, American, Facts, Falsehood, Nation, Open)
"To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Trust, Despair, Facts, Future, Heir, Obligation, Past, State)
"Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word."
- Patrick J. Kennedy
(Related: Trust, Progress, Goals, Americans, Iraq, Measure, President, Word)
"When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: Impression, Control, Children, Culture, Effect, Entertainment, Freedom, Media)
"It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave."
- Nicole Kidman
(Related: Trust, Love, Being)
"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."
- Stephen King
(Related: Trust)
"It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully."
- Thomas Starr King
(Related: Greatness, Future)
"A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Trust, Soul, Friend, Faults, Man, Woman)
"When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself."
- Tom Kite
(Related: Time, Chance, Open, Rain, Wind)
"I don't trust a lot of journalists."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Trust)
"Trust the tale, not the teller."
- David Knopfler
(Related: Trust)
"Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf."
- Herb Kohl
(Related: Trust, Power, Blind, Justice, May, Public)
"Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere."
- Brian Koslow
(Related: Trust, Answers)
"I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters."
- John Krasinski
(Related: Trust, Actors, Job, Will, Writers)
"Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians."
- Charles Krauthammer
(Related: Politics, Trust, Character, America, American, Assassination, Country, Politicians, Years)
"I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual."
- Thomas Kretschmann
(Related: Trust, Work, Opportunity, Chance)
"I do not think that I am a person who cannot be trusted."
- Bela Kun
"I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!"
- Mila Kunis
(Related: Trust, Fun)
"Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?"
- Neil LaBute
(Related: Trust, People, Relationships)
"But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Time, Comfort, Distrust, Water)
"You have to trust your body to take care of you."
- A. J. Langer
(Related: Trust, Body, Care)
"Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'"
- John Lasseter
(Related: Time, Trust, Film)
"Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers."
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Related: Trust, Secrets)
"Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything."
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Related: Evil, Mistrust)
"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Trust, Artist)
"Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect."
- Stephen Leacock
(Related: Men, Trust, Dishonesty)
"Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again."
- William P. Leahy
(Related: Trust, People, Now, Talk)
"Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood."
- Stanislaw Lec
(Related: Trust, Heart, Blood)
"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."
- Robert E. Lee
(Related: Trust, Control, Man)
"Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness."
- Stanislaw Lem
(Related: Trust, People, Greatness)
"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."
- Doris Lessing
(Related: Love, Trust, Friend, Faults, Woman)
"While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis."
- Carl Levin
(Related: Trust, Crisis, Security)
"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink."
- Joe E. Lewis
(Related: Distrust)
"Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?"
- Rush Limbaugh
(Related: Trust, Democrats, Tax, Republican, Security, Tax cuts, Will)
"Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
(Related: Life, Trust)
"My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward."
- Kenny Loggins
(Related: Love, Power, Trust, Life)
"There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens."
- Kenny Loggins
(Related: Love, Trust, Life, Power, Being, Spirit)
"Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust."
- Shelley Long
(Related: Trust, People)
"Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Related: Trust, Heart, World)
"It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost."
- Lyle Lovett
(Related: Trust, People, Opinion, Quantity)
"On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women."
- James Russell Lowell
(Related: Men, Women, Distrust)
"Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears."
- F. L. Lucas
(Related: Trust, English, Principles, Prose, Rules, Sound, Writers)
"Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point."
- Josh Lucas
(Related: Choices)
"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."
- Paul Lynde
(Related: Dad, Trust, Women, Sons)
"One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another."
- Yo-Yo Ma
(Related: Trust, Time, Idea, Deep, Will)
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
- George MacDonald
(Related: Being, Compliment)
"Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly."
- George MacDonald
(Related: Trust)
"I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men."
- Andie MacDowell
(Related: Men, Trust, Women, Love, People, Ability, Voice)
"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
(Related: People, Confidence, Cowardice, Distrust, Hatred, Opinions)
"Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance."
- Hugh Mackay
(Related: Life, People, Church, Climate, Guidance, Mistrust, Present)
"A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."
- Harold MacMillan
(Related: Man)
"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."
- Harold MacMillan
(Related: Experience, Man)
"Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit."
- Ben Maddow
(Related: Experience, Trust, Right)
"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
- James Madison
(Related: Trust, People, Americans, Being, Constitution, Nation)
"The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted."
- James Madison
(Related: Men, Power, Truth)
"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree."
- James Madison
(Related: Men, Power)
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
- James Madison
(Related: Trust, People, Americans, Being, Countries, Right)
"In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent."
- Norman Mailer
(Related: Trust, People, America, Will)
"Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny."
- Henry James Sumner Maine
(Related: Trust, Doubt, Tyranny)
"We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done."
- Wilma Mankiller
(Related: Trust, Job, Thinking)
"This relationship is going to be built on trust."
- Marla Maples
(Related: Trust)
"Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again."
- Kamisese Mara
(Related: Trust)
"In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order."
- Kamisese Mara
(Related: Peace, Society, Trust, Order, Tolerance, Understanding)
"There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Power, Trust, Day, Judgment, Rest, Right, Universe)
"The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well."
- Jose Marti
(Related: Trust, Life, Future, Honor, Vote)
"He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief."
- Jose Marti
(Related: Money, Trust, Interest, Wishes)
"I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar."
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Love, Trust, Women, Cute, Name, Talking)
"If global cooling will come soon - scientists will lose trust."
- Shigenori Maruyama
(Related: Trust, Scientists, Will)
"If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us."
- Francis Maude
(Related: Trust, People, Right, Will)
"I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir."
- Armistead Maupin
(Related: Truth, Fiction)
"The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'."
- John McCarthy
(Related: Trust, Years)
"Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior."
- Mary McCarthy
(Related: Trust, Behavior, Liberty, Nothing, Opinion, State)
"The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country."
- George B. McClellan
(Related: Trust, Action, Country)
"I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate."
- Susannah McCorkle
(Related: Time, Trust, Control, Fate)
"I never trusted good-looking boys."
- Frances McDormand
(Related: Boys)
"It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust."
- Ewan McGregor
(Related: Trust, Job, Style)
"Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make."
- John McKinley
(Related: Trust, Decisions, Tests)
"We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy."
- Mignon McLaughlin
"What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign."
- Donella Meadows
(Related: Trust, Nation, Public, Reason)
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."
- Golda Meir
(Related: Trust, Life, Achievement, Possibility, Self, Will)
"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Age, Wisdom, Distrust, Doctrine)
"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Marriage, Trust, End, Friends, Interest, Profit)
"Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through."
- Sam Mendes
(Related: Talent, People, Actors, Skill, Theater, Will)
"I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano."
- Ethel Merman
(Related: Trust, Man)
"Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it."
- Duane Michals
(Related: Trust, Voice)
"There is no credible evidence of the current exceptional global warming trumpeted by the IPCC. The IPCC is no longer behaving as an investigative scientific organization or pretending to be one. Their leaders betrayed the trust of the world community."
- Grant Miles
(Related: Trust, Community, Global warming, Leaders, World)
"Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
(Related: Distrust, World)
"I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy."
- Dennis Miller
(Related: Trust, God, Comedy)
"There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of."
- Wentworth Miller
(Related: Business, Faith, May, Measure, Proof)
"There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush."
- Zell Miller
(Related: Future, Man, Name)
"Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you."
- Stephanie Mills
(Related: Business, Money, Trust, Managers, Will)
"In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Love, Heart, Self, Vanity)
"As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people."
- Steve Mitchell
(Related: People, African, Mistrust, Racism)
"I don't really trust men who claim they are not interested in porn."
- Moby
(Related: Men, Trust)
"When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage."
- Colin Mochrie
(Related: Work, Life, Trust, Control, Consequences, World)
"My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it."
- Katherine Moennig
(Related: Trust, Challenge)
"Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it."
- Mary Wortley Montagu
(Related: Trust, Virtue, First, Force, Necessity, Temptation)
"Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do."
- Mario Monti
(Related: Justice, Nationality)
"I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US."
- Mario Monti
(Related: Experience, Europe, Justice, Respect)
"The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes."
- Brian Moore
(Related: People, Causes, Majority)
"You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office."
- Joe Moore
(Related: Trust, Love, Office, Promise, Running)
"As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust."
- Marianne Moore
(Related: Trust, Sickness)
"When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day."
- Alberto Moravia
(Related: Trust, Work, Inspiration, Day, Waiting)
"No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them."
- Desmond Morris
(Related: Trust, Mother, Old)
"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think."
- Toni Morrison
(Related: Trust, Power, Dream)
"Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed."
- Julius Sterling Morton
(Related: Earth, Posterity)
"Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you."
- Samantha Morton
(Related: Trust, Performance, Forget)
"The only white man you can trust is a dead white man."
- Robert Mugabe
(Related: Trust, Man)
"One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence."
- Lewis Mumford
(Related: Intelligence)
"And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something."
- Dennis Muren
(Related: Trust)
"We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights."
- Frank Murphy
(Related: Time, Trust, Effect, Rights, Reason)
"It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Trust)
"The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next."
- V. S. Naipaul
(Related: Business, Idea, Beginning, Intuition, Now, Reason, Writing)
"I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years."
- V. S. Naipaul
(Related: Idea, Intuition, Will, Years)
"I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me."
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
(Related: Mistrust)
"I have to trust what I do and then do it."
- Ednita Nazario
(Related: Trust)
"Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty."
- Horatio Nelson
(Related: Trust, God, Opportunity, Cause, Duty, Events, Justice, Now)
"I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient."
- Kristi Noem
(Related: Government, Leadership, Trust, Goals, Class, Economy)
"I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer."
- Oliver North
"As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead."
- Andre Norton
(Related: Trust, Lie, Courage, Lies, May, Measure, Trials, Will)
"We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord."
- Michael Novak
(Related: Hope, Endurance)
"If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Government, Trust, People, Job, Welfare)
"It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Religion, Sacrifice, Day, Mistrust, Suspicion, Will)
"I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women."
- Edna O'Brien
(Related: Trust, Women, Competition, Friends)
"To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic."
- William Odom
(Related: Trust, Heart, Control, Military, Now)
"The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town."
- Michael Ondaatje
(Related: Time, Trust, First, Order, Want, Will)
"If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again."
- Bill O'Reilly
(Related: Trust, Americans, Nation, Nothing, Will)
"I distrust anything that you don't hear."
- Leo Ornstein
(Related: Distrust)
"My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college."
- Heather O'Rourke
(Related: Trust, College, Parents)
"They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?"
- Kelly Osbourne
(Related: Trust, People, Friends, Lonely, World)
"There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within."
- Robert Dale Owen
(Related: Trust, Courage, Virtue, May, Measure, Nation)
"If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country."
- Adnan Pachachi
(Related: Trust, War, People, Country, Now, Result, Security, Will)
"I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis."
- Elaine Paige
(Related: Experience, Work, Trust, Awareness, Disease, Help, Support)
"I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it."
- Lilli Palmer
(Related: Mistrust)
"Trust in God - she will provide."
- Emmeline Pankhurst
(Related: Trust, God, Will)
"Something goes wrong, I yell at them -"Fix it"- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust."
- Bill Parcells
(Related: Trust, Fault, Wrong)
"The only ways of enquiry that lead to knowledge... the one way assuming that being is and that it is impossible for it not to be, is the trustworthy path, for truth attends it."
- Parmedides
(Related: Truth, Knowledge, Being)
"You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you."
- Estelle Parsons
(Related: Trust, Character, Luck)
"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."
- Blaise Pascal
(Related: Trust, Truth, God, Duty, End, May, Providence)
"As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid."
- Isabel Paterson
(Related: Laws, Legislation)
"What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust."
- Pope John Paul II
(Related: Trust, Brother, Will)
"There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best."
- Pope John Paul II
(Related: Mother, People, Name, Nations, Silence)
"I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big!"
- Amanda Peet
(Related: Friend)
"It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts."
- Mike Pence
(Related: Time, Trust, Americans, Security, Taxes)
"At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation."
- Li Peng
(Related: Friendship, Trust, Beginning, Cooperation, Countries, Understanding)
"Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee."
- William Penn
(Related: Trust)
"Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust."
- James Cash Penney
(Related: Trust, Responsibility)
"Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership."
- James Cash Penney
(Related: Leadership, Trust, Quality, Confidence, Cooperation, Honor, Satisfaction, Service, Worth)
"I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier."
- James Cash Penney
(Related: Trust, Customer, Want)
"I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance."
- James Cash Penney
(Related: Men, Failure, Chance, Giving)
"This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it."
- Roger Penrose
(Related: Trust, Mathematics, Physics)
"Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization."
- Shimon Peres
(Related: Government, Trust, Now, Talking)
"If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out."
- Shimon Peres
(Related: People, Fact, Tax)
"Trust your ability!"
- Itzhak Perlman
(Related: Trust)
"When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in."
- Itzhak Perlman
(Related: Trust, Work, Play, Problems)
"When you have a clearly open homosexual scout leader, the scouts are going to talk about it. And they're not there to learn about that. They're there to learn about what it means to be loyal and trustworthy and thrifty."
- Rick Perry
(Related: Leader, Open, Talk)
"Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress."
- Frank Pittman
(Related: Distrust, Parents)
"A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole."
- Titus Maccius Plautus
(Related: Life, Mouse)
"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Trust, Friend)
"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."
- Ezra Pound
(Related: Trust, Gentleman, Training)
"Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds."
- Terry Prachett
(Related: Trust, Clouds)
"Trust is the first step to love."
- Munshi Premchand
(Related: Love, Trust, First)
"The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me."
- Katie Price
(Related: Dad, Trust)
"We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!"
- Paul Prudhomme
(Related: Food, Trust, Life, Body)
"When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all."
- Ludwig Quidde
(Related: War, Danger, Distrust, Logic, Military, Security, Will)
"Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them."
- Anna Quindlen
(Related: Trust, Ideas, Books, Ignorance, Kids, Talk)
"We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties."
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
(Related: Trust, Goodwill)
"I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use."
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
(Related: Nature, Trust, America, Europe, Gain, Military, Solution, Will)
"The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers."
- Joseph Ratzinger
(Related: Work, Act, Fact)
"And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust."
- Simon Raven
(Related: Age, Trust, Charity, Nothing, Patience, Skill)
"Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted."
- Michael Reagan
(Related: Dad)
"Trust, but verify."
- Ronald Reagan
(Related: Trust)
"Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust."
- Mitchell Reiss
(Related: Trust, Agreement, Intentions)
"We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism."
- Jodi Rell
(Related: Faith, Privilege, Public, State)
"How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?"
- Mary Renault
(Related: Trust, People, Harvest)
"A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody."
- Cardinal De Retz
(Related: Trust, Man, Will)
"I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it."
- Nick Rhodes
(Related: Trust, People, Idea, Being, Paranoia, State)
"Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor."
- Grantland Rice
(Related: Body, Exercise, Man, Sound, Will)
"If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless."
- Jef I. Richards
(Related: Trust, Advertising)
"Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it."
- Samuel Richardson
(Related: Power)
"The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage."
- Adam Rickitt
(Related: Trust, Abuse, Conservative, Duty, Job, Media, Party, Responsibility)
"Trust is a great force multiplier."
- Tom Ridge
(Related: Trust, Force)
"The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences."
- Jeremy Rifkin
(Related: Life, Information, Will)
"The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds."
- Jeremy Rifkin
(Related: Control, Law, Laws, states, United)
"Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve."
- Bob Riley
(Related: Government, Money, People, Nothing, State, Waste)
"It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears."
- Mo Rocca
(Related: Trust, Man)
"Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Distrust, Man, Silence)
"However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Truth, Distrust, Sincerity)
"I don't trust what this life has given me."
- Dennis Rodman
(Related: Life, Trust)
"Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years."
- James Roosevelt
(Related: Office, President, Security, Sound, Years)
"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big."
- Theodore Roosevelt
(Related: Action, Nation, Poor, Rhetoric, Talk)
"I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money."
- Diana Ross
(Related: Money, Trust, Talk, Want)
"Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Nothing, Will, Word)
"You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'"
- Karl Rove
(Related: Trust, People, Confidence, Credibility, Disaster, Job, May, Rhetoric, Right, Want)
"Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near."
- Helen Rowland
(Related: Trust, Husband)
"I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility."
- John Rowland
(Related: Forgiveness, People, Actions, Attention, Responsibility)
"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
- J. K. Rowling
(Related: Trust)
"Don't trust anyone over thirty."
- Jerry Rubin
(Related: Trust)
"No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Men, Age, Purpose, Knight, Lying, Preaching)
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Fear, Act, Influence, Man, Nation)
"You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next."
- Richard Russo
(Related: Trust, Faith, Order)
"And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough."
- Nolan Ryan
(Related: Family, Trust, Baseball)
"Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others."
- Sallust
(Related: Kings, Mistrust)
"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends."
- Carl Sandburg
(Related: Trust, Friends, Judgment)
"Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
(Related: Trust)
"A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting."
- George Savile
(Related: Danger, Difficulty, Understanding, Will)
"I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely."
- Greta Scacchi
(Related: Trust, People)
"On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it."
- Greta Scacchi
(Related: Trust, Key, Night)
"Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster."
- Anne Wilson Schaef
(Related: Disaster, Intuition)
"No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen."
- John Schlesinger
(Related: Artists, United)
"Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out."
- Mary Schmich
(Related: Trust, Support)
"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(Related: Distrust, Mind)
"I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Government, Trust, People, Progress)
"To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Government, Trust, People, Reform)
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
- Albert Schweitzer
(Related: Causes, Kindness, Mistrust, Sun)
"Trust me, if I were gay I'd be getting more action than I'm getting now."
- Ryan Seacrest
(Related: Trust, Action, Gay, Now)
"Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition."
- Ryan Seacrest
(Related: American, Tradition)
"It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit."
- W. G. Sebald
(Related: Trust, First, Language, Problems)
"The essence of good government is trust."
- Kathleen Sebelius
(Related: Government, Trust)
"Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust."
- Lance Secretan
(Related: Love, Trust, Heart, Feeling, Feet, Followers, Leaders, Saying, Thinking)
"I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again."
- Connie Sellecca
(Related: Marriage, Time, Trust, Work, Fault, Man)
"I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Trust, Liberals)
"The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction."
- Nassau William Senior
(Related: Science, Time, Trust, Principles, Will)
"Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt."
- Eric Sevareid
(Related: Trust, Doubt, Error, Man)
"You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no."
- Jane Seymour
(Related: Trust, People, Help)
"The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection."
- Butler Shaffer
(Related: Control, Distrust, Order, Protection, State, Thinking)
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Love, Trust, Wrong)
"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Trust, Eye)
"Let no such man be trusted."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Man)
"I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: People, Blood)
"I trust no one totally."
- Gary Sheffield
(Related: Trust)
"You can't trust the internet."
- Nicolette Sheridan
(Related: Trust, Internet)
"Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck."
- Allan Sherman
(Related: Winning, Luck)
"There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed."
- Dan Simmons
(Related: Art, Trust, Effort)
"Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing."
- Mike Simpson
(Related: Trust, Deals, Grudges, Reputation)
"You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do."
- Bryan Singer
(Related: Trust, Time, People, Idea, Hope, End, Wrong)
"Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me."
- Joey Skaggs
(Related: Trust, Worth)
"There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists."
- Joe Slovo
(Related: Life, Trust, People)
"Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish."
- Barbara Smith
(Related: Faith, Love, Trust, Beginning, Living, Relationships)
"I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill."
- Gerrit Smith
(Related: Trust, Will, Words)
"In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!"
- Joseph Smith, Jr.
(Related: Power, Trust, Doubt, Man, World)
"We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend."
- Tony Snow
(Related: Trust, Blessings, Destiny, Liberty, Nation, Sense)
"Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath."
- Solon
(Related: Trust, Character, Nobility)
"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms."
- Sophocles
(Related: Trust, Mistrust)
"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them."
- Thomas Sowell
(Related: Trust, People, Failure)
"I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners."
- John H. Speke
(Related: Travel, Trust, Climate, Foreigners, Trying)
"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: Trust, People, Development, American, Children, Language, Public, Reading, Sexuality, Television)
"With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure."
- Art Spiegelman
(Related: Trust, Work, Measure, Worth)
"Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do."
- Benjamin Spock
(Related: Trust)
"That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support."
- Lysander Spooner
(Related: Government, Support)
"Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public."
- Steven Squyres
(Related: Trust, Public, Public trust, Responsibility)
"I trust no one, not even myself."
- Joseph Stalin
(Related: Trust)
"Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
- Philip Stanhope
(Related: Women, Growth, Children, Man, Sense, Trifles)
"You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Government, Trust, People, Betrayal)
"You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God."
- Saint Stephen
(Related: Trust, God, Compassion, Desire, Mercy)
"This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality."
- Payne Stewart
(Related: Trust, Golf)
"Never trust sheep."
- Ryan Stiles
(Related: Trust, Sheep)
"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him."
- Henry L. Stimson
(Related: Life, Trust, Distrust, Man)
"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."
- Henry L. Stimson
(Related: Trust, Man)
"Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well."
- Madeleine Stowe
"Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men."
- John Strachan
(Related: Men, Ambition, Christ, Fight, May, Praise, Salvation)
"It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this."
- Dorothy Stratten
(Related: Trust, Work, Manager, HusbGoals)
"I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through."
- Peter Straub
(Related: Trust, Blind, Fate, Instinct)
"You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it."
- Barbra Streisand
(Related: Trust)
"I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror."
- Barbra Streisand
(Related: Trust)
"In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Life, Months)
"A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year."
- Paul Sweeney
(Related: Wedding, Love, Trust, Order, Partnership, Tenacity, Tolerance)
"Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe."
- Bob Taft
(Related: Trust, Day, Innocence, Security)
"Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: First, Impulses, Mistrust)
"Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability."
- Ellen Tauscher
(Related: War, Strategy, Diplomacy, Distrust, Nation, National security, Order, Right)
"I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public."
- Billy Tauzin
(Related: Trust, American, Connection, Public)
"When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Trust, Lie, Dying, Prayer)
"While these attitudes are more visible when direct- ed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for."
- Robert Teeter
(Related: Work, Government, People, Distrust)
"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."
- William Temple
(Related: Company, Distrust, Man, Opinions, Rules, Talk, Value)
"Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to."
- William Temple
(Related: Men, Authority, Custom, Man, Nothing)
"In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year."
- Keith Thibodeaux
(Related: Time, Home, People, Beach, Christmas, Fact, Horses, Kids, Play, Summer)
"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition."
- Freeman Thomas
(Related: Design, Honesty, Collaboration, Intuition, Questions)
"The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me."
- Michael Tilson Thomas
(Related: Music, Trust, Work, American, Composers, First, Living)
"You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself."
- Ken Thompson
(Related: Trust)
"No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code."
- Ken Thompson
(Related: Will)
"I let her alone and when she got that finished she left me alone. We trusted each other."
- Virgil Thomson
"We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Clothes, Distrust)
"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Clothes, Distrust)
"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."
- Alvin Toffler
(Related: Intelligence, Distrust, Judgment)
"Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war."
- Ernst Toller
(Related: War, Soldiers)
"I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right."
- Kiana Tom
(Related: Trust, Right)
"The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return."
- Linus Torvalds
(Related: Trust, People, Linux, Network)
"In order to be discipled by others a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when it doesn't fully comprehend or see the end result."
- Ed Townsend
(Related: Heart, End, Order, Result)
"Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience."
- Ed Townsend
(Related: Trust, Obedience)
"I plays Joe's best friend. I am the only one he has ever been able to trust in his life, so I help him understand what happened to him when he was younger."
- Michelle Trachtenberg
(Related: Trust, Life, Friend, Help)
"Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied."
- Boris Trajkovski
(Related: Trust, Values, Community, Confidence, Identity, Principles, Will)
"It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind."
- Travis Tritt
(Related: Trust, Old)
"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation."
- D. Elton Trueblood
(Related: Faith, Trust, Belief, Proof)
"The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction."
- Harry S. Truman
(Related: Thought, People, Action, Direction, Nationality, Race, Right, Will)
"The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people."
- Dalton Trumbo
(Related: Trust, People, Enemies, Public, State)
"As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?"
- John Trumbull
(Related: Trust, Rights, Obligation, Posterity)
"You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement."
- Paul Tsongas
(Related: Love, Achievement, Americans, Country, Mankind, Principles)
"Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time."
- Harriet Tubman
(Related: Time, Trust, Friends, Quakers)
"Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts."
- Fred L. Turner
(Related: Trust, Work, Common sense)
"I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up."
- Shania Twain
(Related: Life, Trust, Honesty, Bed, Compassion, Sense)
"Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Judgment, Now)
"He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted."
- Lao Tzu
(Related: Trust, Will)
"Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on."
- Peter Ueberroth
(Related: Trust, Baseball, Public, Public trust)
"Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love."
- Morihei Ueshiba
(Related: Love, Power, Trust, Bravery, Devotion, Loyalty, Self, Spirit)
"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust."
- Samuel Ullman
(Related: Soul, Heart, Fear, Enthusiasm, May, Self, Skin, Spirit, Worry, Years)
"Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst."
- Alvar N. C. de Vaca
(Related: Death, Trust, God, Killing, Risk, Sea, Water)
"I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em."
- Jim Valvano
(Related: Trust, Thinking)
"Trust not to much to appearances."
- Virgil
(Related: Trust)
"Trust one who has tried."
- Virgil
(Related: Trust)
"If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: Men, Trust, Adventure, Charity, Common sense, Democracy, Malice, Reality)
"Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: Fear, Opportunity, Competition, Democracy, Distrust)
"Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world."
- Jim Walton
(Related: News, World)
"In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction."
- Mary A. Ward
(Related: Art, Trust, Choice, Fiction, Instinct)
"It is critical that Democratic candidates, whether they are in New Jersey, or Virginia, or anywhere, emphasize the fact that we can be trusted, and can bring fiscal integrity to our state, local, and national government."
- Mark Warner
(Related: Government, Fact, Integrity, State)
"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."
- Booker T. Washington
(Related: Trust, Help, Responsibility)
"If you don't trust the pilot, don't go."
- Denzel Washington
(Related: Trust)
"The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer."
- Thomas J. Watson
(Related: Power, Trust, Building, Customer)
"Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness."
- William Watson
(Related: Blindness, Children, Hate, Mistrust)
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."
- Alan Watts
(Related: Faith, Trust, Relax, Water, Will)
"Faith is a state of openness or trust."
- Alan Watts
(Related: Faith, Trust, State)
"Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks."
- Isaac Watts
(Related: Trust, Life, Learning)
"Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt."
- Sigourney Weaver
(Related: Life, Trust, Impression, Hurt, Will)
"I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned."
- Daniel Webster
(Related: Judgment, Man, Mistrust, Wishes)
"Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best."
- John Webster
(Related: Friends, Old)
"When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country."
- Noah Webster
(Related: Trust, Country, Interest, Man)
"Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word."
- Caspar Weinberger
(Related: People, Talking, Trying, Word)
"Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Love, Trust, God, People)
"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."
- Rebecca West
(Related: Trust, People)
"Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start."
- Lynn Westmoreland
(Related: Money, Trust)
"In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together."
- Margaret J. Wheatley
(Related: Work, Anger, Life, People, Distrust, Greed, Losing, Needs)
"I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this."
- Joss Whedon
(Related: Trust, Right, Waiting)
"O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you."
- George Whitefield
(Related: Trust, Heart, Christ, Preaching)
"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it."
- Alfred North Whitehead
(Related: Life, Distrust, Simplicity)
"Seek simplicity but distrust it."
- Alfred North Whitehead
(Related: Distrust, Simplicity)
"Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note."
- Dianne Wiest
"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."
- Billy Wilder
(Related: Trust, Instinct, Mistakes)
"In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul."
- David Wilkerson
(Related: Trust, Soul, People, God, Body, Rest)
"A global democracy works only when countries trust one another."
- Armstrong Williams
(Related: Trust, Countries, Democracy)
"Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything."
- Lucinda Williams
(Related: Change, Trust, Songs)
"I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off."
- Robbie Williams
(Related: People)
"In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that."
- Rowan Williams
(Related: Trust, Sense)
"Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey."
- Tad Williams
(Related: Home, Love, Trust, Friends, Journey, Learning, Memory, Will)
"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal."
- Tennessee Williams
(Related: Betrayal, Defense, Distrust)
"What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others."
- William John Wills
(Related: Trust, Expectations, World)
"Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country."
- William Windham
(Related: Country)
"It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!"
- Kate Winslet
(Related: Trust, Sense)
"Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation."
- John Witherspoon
(Related: Men, Trust, Conversation, State)
"Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks."
- P. G. Wodehouse
"I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust."
- Douglas Wood
(Related: Trust, Career, Friends, Self, Sense)
"I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Trust, Criticism, Now, Presidency, Question, Sincerity, Will)
"I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund."
- Louise Woodward
(Related: Trust, Questions)
"Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness."
- Fred Woodworth
(Related: Government, Trust, Behavior, Evil, Helpfulness, Responsibility)
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
- Steve Wozniak
(Related: Trust, Computer)
"The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough."
- Fay Wray
(Related: Thought)
"The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety."
- Edward Young
(Related: Trust, Miracles, Safety, Sea)
"Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish."
- Timothy Zahn
(Related: Illusion, Luck)
"For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression."
- Billy Zane
(Related: Love, Trust, Work, Impression, Character, First, Psychology, Training)
"From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once."
- Zhang Ziyi
(Related: Trust, Work, Beginning, Chance, End)