Distrusted Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
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The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a…
— James Buchan
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Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He…
— John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
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Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the…
— Jon Krakauer
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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that…
— Agatha Christie
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The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.
— Thomas de Quincey
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I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of…
— Graham Greene
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The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to…
— Dean Koontz
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These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same…
— Margaret Mitchell
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
— James Madison
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I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that…
— Armistead Maupin
Who Wrote These Distrusted Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 12 Distrusted Quotes as follows: