Distrust Quotes · Page 8

Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.

— Ronald Reagan

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

— Pierre Omidyar

I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.

— Francis Quarles

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

— George Eliot

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

— Henry David Thoreau

Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

— Joyce Brothers

We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

“Alone isn't a bad place to be, especially when it's the alternative to distrust and unhappiness, but”

— Carolyn Brown

Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy,…

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look…

— Butler Shaffer

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a…

— Stephen Covey

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should…

— Bertrand Russell

My tenure as mayor of Braddock started with a community that was embroiled in mass distrust between residents and the police force.

— John Fetterman

Secrets are going to lead to lies, that lead to distrust, that lead to the end of relationships. So don't keep secrets…

— Nishan Panwar

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the…

— Jane Porter

“We stared at each other, bound by common experience, but each looking at the other through the steady crosshairs of inherent distrust.”

— David Grant Urban

Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a…

— Ellen Tauscher

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare…

— Michael Jackson

Traveling ought also to teach him distrust; but at the same time he will discover, how many truly kind-hearted people there are,…

— Charles Darwin

I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust -…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Big Brother is not the only danger facing the country. Another is the rising tide of distrust, the corrosive spread of cynicism,…

— David Brooks

Conflict, of course, comes about because of the misuse of power and the clash of ideals, not to mention the inflammatory activities…

— Prince Charles

The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy…

— Herman Melville

It is important to note that Edward Snowden was labeled as a spy not a whistle-blower - even though he exposed the…

— Henry Giroux

Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused…

— Charles Dickens

The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work,…

— Samuel R. Delany

Choosing a director is like choosing a therapist - you want somebody who is going to be a step or two ahead…

— Donald Margulies

“I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

— Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

— Robert Breault

On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.

— Anonymous

I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.

— Pope Francis

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

— Joe E. Lewis

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

— Frank Herbert

I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.

— Henri Nouwen

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

— Henry David Thoreau

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life.

— Georg Feuerstein

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the…

— Frank Langella

There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?

— Mahatma Gandhi