Distrustful Quotes

29 quotes by 28 authors

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. — James A. Baldwin
When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But… — Paulo Coelho
You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them. — Wallace D. Wattles
What got me excited to do Grima Wormtongue is when I was young I went through a period in boarding school were I was picked… — Brad Dourif
Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible â€˜Iâ€™â€¦. Then again, poets seem able to… — Julian Barnes
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as… — James Branch Cabell
A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than barter.… — Robert D. Putnam
The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in… — Alexander Lowen
With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of… — Nikola Tesla
A disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, [the Americans] will be divided and subdivided into little commonwealths... with… — Josiah Tucker
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined… — Thomas Jefferson
Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities.… — P.J. O'Rourke
In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to be… — Alec Soth
The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing… — Charles Dickens
When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful… — Richard M. Nixon
However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced… — William Hazlitt
The treacherous are ever distrustful. — J.R.R. Tolkien
All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really… — Suzanne Collins
Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick… — S E Hinton

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