distrust

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.

Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it's lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back.

The superior weapon of choice to fight ineffective, unwarranted distrust and fear, is a commitment to believing in others, coupled with a charitable heart; it is then that logic and intellect can be most successfully employed to deal with such negative emotions.

We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal.

Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.

Nita: I think I overdid the vulnerability stuff in this last letter. and that__ why I__ having an anxiety attack.Howard: With the vulnerability comes the possibility that you__l be betrayed. Now that you__e laid yourself wide open, I am the agent of this betrayal? It__ not my style.Nita: I__e thought it wasn't other people__ style, too.

Distrust is like a vicious fire that keeps going and going, even put out, it will reignite itself, devouring the good with the bad, and still feeding on empty.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive.

She dreamed of autumn. Of chilly autumn winds and soft fall rains. She could even feel the cool moisture as the rain drops touched her face and ran down her cheeks.

It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and stories we see spectacles forming in the street and parades coming from around the corner, and we know to greet then with distrust and apprehension: their intent is still to be revealed.

When distrust is so profound that it makes you wary of every word dripping from honeyed lips...It sharpens your instincts...Now for a woman, THAT is a powerful weapon...

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever.

Lies breed distrust, and distrust brings conflict.