Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

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 Spurgeon

I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.

Charles Spurgeon

Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.

Charles Spurgeon

Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

Alan Watts

If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed

Alan Perlis

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

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.

Chloe Sevigny

I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.

Demetri Martin

The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast.

Lord Chesterfield

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Richelle Mead

I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water—and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury.

Robert Purvis

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

Lawrence Durrell

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Lois Capps

Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship.

Lewis Carroll

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

Julie Johnston

The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.

Joyce Meyer

The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.

Patrick Stewart

There's no such thing as "just a domestic".

Jodi Picoult

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

Gloria Steinem

If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.

Mariska Hargitay

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.