Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.

George Herbert

Trust not one night's ice.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

Jerry Bridges

Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.

Horatio Nelson

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.

Homer

Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.

Charlie Villanueva

If I can't trust myself to score, I can't trust anybody.

Harvey S. Firestone

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

Grover Cleveland

The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.

James Dean

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

James Broughton

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

Jakob Dylan

There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is chaos, and there is crime There is no one home tonight, in the empire of my mind

Jalal Talabani

Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.

Jack White

I trust no one who hasn’t time for music.

James Freeman Clarke

When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.

Morrie Schwartz

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too —even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.

Margaret Spellings

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.

Jose Marti

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

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.

Kenneth Clarke

I trust that whoever leads the Conservative Party actually pays regard to my advice on how we should conduct ourselves and I personally will obviously support whoever eventually wins.

John C. Calhoun

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

Harriet Tubman

Twasn't me, 'twas the Lord! I always told Him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,' an' He always did.

Melody Beattie

We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.

James Macdonald

When you say, I don't know exactly what God is doing, but I know he's in control that's evidence you're trusting Him.

James Madison

The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less informed part of the community. They have seen, too, that one legislative interference is but the first link of a long chain of repetitions, every subsequent interference being naturally produced by the effects of the preceding.

Eric Ries

If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?

Eric Ries

If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens - but won't necessarily gain validated learning - If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Ellis Peters

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

Hermann Hesse

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on!

Hesiod

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.