762 private quotes tagged trust

“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

“It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.”— Mariel Hemingway

“My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'”— Sean Parker

“All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.”— Mark Hoppus

“As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.”— Emmitt Smith

“Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.”— John Churton Collins

“I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.”— Martin Van Buren

“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

“It takes people a while to trust you.”— Karl Malone

“Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.”— Sophie Ellis-Bextor

“One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.”— E. L. Doctorow

“I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.”— Olivia Thirlby

“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

“Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.”— John Stossel

“I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself.”— Michael Arad

“If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.”— Nick Offerman

“Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.”— Mitchell Reiss

“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

“The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels.”— Carrie Brownstein

“My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.”— Nicole Scherzinger

“You can't just trust to luck you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.”— Estelle Parsons

“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

“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

“I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.”— Nancy Grace

“I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.”— James Carville