Top 100 Be Trusted Quotes
#1. It's too much to be trusted with someone else's heart. I don't think it ever ends well.
Amy McNamara
#2. our daily associations cannot be trusted to make clear to the young the part played in our activities by remote physical energies, and by invisible structures. Hence a special mode of social intercourse is instituted, the school, to care for such matters.
John Dewey
#3. A meteorologist might beg to differ, but weather prediction was an act of infidel witchcraft that could not be trusted.
Anthony Marra
#4. Many people desire to be trusted but they don't do things that make them trustworthy...
Assegid Habtewold
#5. It was perhaps, the devil's oldest precept, that sin could always be trusted to reveal what was most human in a person as often for good as for ill.
Joe Hill
#6. Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
Walter Scott
#7. Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.
Shelley Long
#9. Those whose tastes run to personal power [can] never be trusted to act save in the pursuit of their own ambition.
Jack McDevitt
#10. Anything you say at this point cannot be trusted. You know I am well and truly angry, so you are in the grip of fear. This means I cannot trust any word you say, as it comes from fear. You are clever, and charming, and a liar. I know you can bend the world with your words. So I will not listen.
Patrick Rothfuss
#11. It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea.
Walter Lippmann
#12. The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.
Elisabeth Elliot
#13. I was right. Mrs. Patterson is neat and organized. She cannot be trusted.
Matthew Dicks
#15. The Man who has not Music in his Soul, Or is not touch'd with Concord of sweet Sounds, Is fit for Treasons, Strategems, and Spoils, The Motions of his Mind are dull as Night, And his Affections dark as Erebus: Let no such Man be trusted.17 Copying a passage
Kevin J. Hayes
#16. They (low-minded) ones should never be trusted.
Chanakya
#17. But Marchent, most journalists can't be trusted. You do know that, don't you?
Anne Rice
#18. That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
Lysander Spooner
#19. When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!
E. M. Forster
#20. The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.
John Taylor Gatto
#21. Relationships were for that reason utterly mysterious, they took place between two subconscious minds, and whatever the surface trickle thought was going on could not be trusted to be right.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#22. City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary, or even efficient city, much less a beautiful one.
Murray Bookchin
#23. If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#24. I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted.
Ken Ham
#25. A lifetime in the business had taught her that, apart from the few good people that work along-side you,nobody is to be trusted,ever,because sooner or later they'll let you down,sure as God made little green apples. And, when you came to think of it,hadn't that been the dirtiest trick of them all?
Tom Holt
#26. A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
Dean Inge
#27. I am getting you a coffee machine. Your husband is a horrible person. He lies when he says hello. He cannot keep up with all the lies he tells. Everyone knows he is not to be trusted. Wake up Coffee machine on its way.
Ari Emanuel
#28. They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.
Rachel Cohn
#29. Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.
George Ayittey
#30. Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.
Martin Amis
#31. If you're wrestling with some sort of decision, reflect for a moment and ask yourself, Am I being brave, or am I being safe? In the end, it depends on whether we think God can be trusted.
Gary Haugen
#32. Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.
Thomas Jefferson
#33. I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.
Brandon Sanderson
#34. For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
Alan W. Watts
#35. The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#36. Vinyaya was being openly antagonistic, and that was an emotion that could be trusted, unless of course it was a bluff and the commander was a secret fan of his, unless it was a double bluff and she really did feel antagonistic.
Eoin Colfer
#37. Those who do not trust enough should not be trusted.
Laozi
#38. Question the trustworthiness of someone who insists to be trusted without earning it...
Assegid Habtewold
#39. The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Harry S. Truman
#40. She reminds me of ... me." "Then clearly she can't be trusted.
Ally Carter
#41. She'd always perceived the world to be against her. Happiness was never to be trusted. And yet I thought vaguely, neither was sorrow. Didn't each come to season in the other?
Regina O'Melveny
#42. One of the ways we communicate that we can be trusted is in the way we care for other people.
Zig Ziglar
#43. There was a continual sense of something hovering out of reach, a profound conclusion even then blood-song couldn't divine. But can she? And if she can, could she be trusted with the knowledge? The idea of trusting her was absurd, of course. but even the untrustworthy could be useful.
Anthony Ryan
#45. Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them.
Herbert Read
#46. Sometimes love needed a lift from its guardian angels, to get its feet off the ground. But once it made its first early beats toward flight, it had to be trusted to take wing on its own and soar past the highest conceivable heights, into the heavens-and beyond.
Lauren Kate
#47. I want my country to be trusted. I don't want anybody running for president telling the unions what they want to hear at the expense of the credibility of the United States.
Brian Williams
#48. I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn't be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own.
Penny Reid
#49. We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.
Jodi Rell
#50. Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
Max Beerbohm
#51. If men are too blind to govern themselves, how can they be trusted to govern others?
Philip K. Dick
#52. I turned my face to let his nose rub my cheek. "Mason, let's just stay here," I told him breathlessly.
He chuckled, huskily and dangerously. "Oh, no, absolutely not. I'm not to be trusted with you alone right now.
Shelly Crane
#53. It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.
Mary Stewart
#54. God created you with special talents for a purpose, and sometimes those we love most don't understand that. Don't let the doubts of others ring louder than God's whispers to your spirit. Sometimes God's whispers are harder to hear, but they're to be trusted the most.
Tricia Goyer
#55. Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.
Ilana Mercer
#56. Only a man who hates his privilege can be trusted with it.
Rebecca Lee
#57. I don't hate journalists. You can't hate a class of people. It's wrong to say that. But I do think they're a bit like poison. Never trust them. You can't trust them as a class of people. It's their job not to be trusted.
Mick Jagger
#58. Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest - forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.
Hannah Arendt
#59. Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?
Andy Stanley
#60. We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.
Thomas Jefferson
#61. Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.
Stephen King
#62. I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions,
Henry David Thoreau
#63. I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.
Rick Moody
#64. You were right. I can't be trusted around people." "What does that make me? A stuffed potato?
Dannielle Wicks
#65. It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.
George Washington
#66. We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.
Alison Croggon
#67. Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.
Ellen J. Barrier
#68. Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.
Nicolas Walter
#69. I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want ... the whole thing can't be trusted, really.
Don McCullin
#70. What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
Tracey Emin
#71. Christ came to prove that God tells the truth, that God keeps his promises. Christmas means that God can be trusted.
John Piper
#72. It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.
John Adams
#73. Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell
#74. Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.
Hans F. Sennholz
#75. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
#76. And in your deranged mind, what do you think the lesson of 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' is?" Alex challenged him. "Easy," Conner said. "Lock your doors! Robbers come in all shapes and sizes. Even curly-haired little girls can't be trusted." Alex grunted again and crossed her arms.
Chris Colfer
#77. Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen ... They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.
Phyllis McGinley
#78. If I know anything it's that a girl never makes a case for herself by crying. It's just one more side of herself she's showed can't be trusted.
Courtney Summers
#79. He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.
Aesop
#81. If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.
Theodor Mommsen
#82. One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.
Birch Bayh
#83. Ask yourself why Aemon Targaryan was allowed to waste his life upon the Wall when by rights he should have been raised to archmaester. His blood was why. He could not be trusted.
George R R Martin
#84. It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.
Catherynne M Valente
#85. American popular culture pivoted. Once the dominant view was that the self is to be distrusted but external institutions are to be trusted. Then the dominant view was that the self is to be trusted and external constraints are to be distrusted.
David Brooks
#87. Man cannot be trusted unless they are watched
Bram Stoker
#89. The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.
P.D. James
#90. Fear cannot be trusted ... It exaggerates everything. It is both treacherous and dishonest.
David Gemmell
#92. Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#93. Are you kidding me? How can you even ask me that? I'm stuck in a world I have no hope of surviving, I'm forced to depend on a guy who thinks I can't be trusted, I'm being pushed into marrying a man who believes I can't talk, and I've lost everyone I've ever cared about! Why wouldn't I feel uneasy?
Cheryl Koevoet
#94. God can be trusted. He keeps His promises. He doesn't make any mistakes.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#95. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Charles Caleb Colton
#96. The American people can always be trusted with the information.
Scott Pelley
#97. Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.
John Locke
#98. Nobody was to be trusted. The plan that had ensnared her had been the brainchild of her protector, Maxim Childersin.
Frances Hardinge
#99. Criminals did not have friends. They had associates, suppliers, fences, whores, sugar daddies, enablers, dealers, collaborators, co-conspirators, victims and bosses, any of whom they might rat out and none of whom could be trusted.
Robert Crais
#100. The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God's call.
Pope Benedict XVI
