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Trust Quotes


"This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love."


"It's hard to impress me in case you don't know me, to lie me there isn't purpose I will find soon or later the truth. The lie just make the stuff complex and complex and after all I just don't want anymore to believe in your words, if you want to sacrifice this okay, continue to do this and I can assure that soon everything will come in it's order."


"What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been Vin, she would have stabbed him in the back at the first opportunity, and that would have probably been the right thing to do. Yet, this girl just continued to trust. It was like finding a beautiful plant growing alone in a field of burnt ash."



"How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?"


"What is suspicion? It is a tool to ruin one's own Soul."


"If you teach a wolf how to hunt, it will reward you by devouring you."


"I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion."


"The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too."


"Trust compared to a valuable stone that has been shattered, cannot be restored to its original form."


"She told me later that her parents had told her to steer clear of me at school. "My mum said that nobody really knew where you came from. And that you might be dangerous." "Why didn't you listen to her?" I asked. "Because nobody knew where you came from, Simon! And you might be dangerous!" "You have the worst survival instincts." "Also, I felt sorry for you," she said. "You were holding your wand backwards."


"Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith?"


"Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust."


"One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends."


"It's like your whole life you've been falling toward the earth, until the moment someone catches you. And you realize that somehow you've caught her at the same time. And together, instead of falling, you might be able to fly."
The ghost went to the discarded clipping and stared down at the photo, riveted.
"She's a beaut, isn't she?"
"Sure," Alex said automatically, although there was nothing of Zoë's sparkling allure in the photo, only a hint of resemblance.


"What is trust? It is when there is no objection in the 'parliament' (comprised of mind, intellect, chit and ego) that is within; when there is agreement amongst all; that is called trust."


"Before letting someone hold your heart in their hands, make sure their hands are clean."



"Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust?Very nearly everyone, come to think of it..."


"Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do."


"The 'public' scares me, but people I trust."


"How do you sell emptiness, vulnerability, and nonsuccess?"


"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."



"Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star."


"People may break your heart and drive you crazily. God is the only dependable person you should rely on."



"It's more than that.' Reyna rested her hand on Nico's. 'While you were asleep, I did a lot ofthinking. What I told you about my father - I'd never shared that with anyone. I guess I knew youwere the right person to confide in. You lifted some of my burden. I trust you, Nico."



"Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy."


"Authentic people are instantly more likable and trustworthy, which makes building rapport with them a pleasure."


"That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion."
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