Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without…

Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along;…

— Emily Dickinson

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But…

— John Brown

I understand that it was Derian who spoiled everything; he purposefully tainted your view of me and forced you to follow him. I know…

— Shalini

I would rather lose money than trust

— Robert Bosch

When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.

— Juvenal

I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which…

— Anais Nin

But there are things you can't consult anybody about.

— Saul Bellow

Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her

— John Muir

... people get confidential at midnight.

— Maxine Kumin

I was wondering how you were going to punish me for not confiding in you. Punishment, actually, is something I've thought about for a…

— Derek Landy

When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever,"…

— Emily Dickinson

Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is…

— Frederick William Robertson

The act of not discussing or confiding the event with another may be more damaging than having experienced the event per se.

— James W. Pennebaker

The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and…

— Thomas Roberts