Can't Be Trusted Quotes

#1. A man who hates music can't be trusted, I always say.

George R R Martin

#2. When it comes to immigration, the journalist's motto is: The public can't be trusted with the truth.

Ann Coulter

#3. Life is hard. People can't be trusted. Vigilance is key. Be wise about whom you love, and when you do love, do it with every fiber of your being. Till death do you part.

David DiBenedetto

#4. Everything I tell her reminds her of some cute anecdote about one of her previous jobs, or previous boyfriends, or previous lives, or her cat, Sparkles, who is mitten-toed and sleeps on her head and can't be trusted on catnip.

Kirt J. Boyd

#5. Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted.

Neal Boortz

#6. Fiction writers can't be trusted. They make things up.

Dan Poynter

#7. In the digital economy, if you can't be trusted you have no business doing business.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#8. When a woman excels at her job, both male and female coworkers will remark that she may be accomplishing a lot, but is "not well-liked by her peers." She is probably also "too aggressive," "not a team player," "a bit political," "can't be trusted," or "difficult.

Sheryl Sandberg

#9. If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.

Miles Davis

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. She reminds me of ... me." "Then clearly she can't be trusted.

Ally Carter

#16. You were right. I can't be trusted around people." "What does that make me? A stuffed potato?

Dannielle Wicks

#17. Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary Clinton].

Tamara Keith

#18. A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Adrian Rogers

#19. If one can't be trusted in love, one can't be trusted in anything. Some things can't be forgiven.

Mary E. Pearson

#20. The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be trusted to keep their word to the international community.

Michael Bloomberg

#21. And if Tear's words can't be trusted, then who do we listen to? Yourself. The

Erika Johansen

#22. Tom said about Scott and Megan came from Anna, and no one knows better than I do that she can't be trusted.

Paula Hawkins

#23. If FBI agents can't be trusted to wiretap within the law, why trust them to carry weapons or make arrests?

Ronald Kessler

#24. Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely here. And there aren't enough bathrooms and white enamel in the world to go round.

Ford Madox Ford

#25. It is the man who can't be trusted who does not trust others because he judges them by himself.

Piers Anthony

#26. But Marchent, most journalists can't be trusted. You do know that, don't you?

Anne Rice

#27. 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

#28. I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.

Ann Aguirre

#29. Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments can generally be trusted only if they remain short; even moderately long nonmathematical arguments rapidly becomes farfetched an dubious.

Jacob T. Schwartz

#30. No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself.

Vin Suprynowicz

#31. [Integrity] means a person is the same on the inside as he or she claims to be on the outside. He is the same person alone in a hotel room a thousand miles from home as he is at work or in his community or with his family. A man of integrity can be trusted.

Billy Graham

#32. In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#33. How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

Vladimir Putin

#34. I don't like raccoons. They look ... shifty, with their little burglar masks and everything. Also, they carry rabies. Can I catch rabies? Probably not. All the same, it sounds gruesome - and I think we all know that cute, fuzzy woodland creatures are not to be trusted on general principle.

Cherie Priest

#35. The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows.

C.S. Lewis

#36. We are asking the wrong question. The issue is not who should be trusted with all the power of the Presidency. Instead, we must ask how much power any candidate can be trusted with.

James Bovard

#37. Having two women - one who can't know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life - is clearly difficult for him.

Jennifer Harrison

#38. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

Henry David Thoreau

#39. But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?

Charles Darwin

#40. How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.

Price Pritchett

#41. Pray for wisdom to deal with whatever is worrying you. Pray that God will act to change the circumstances according to His will. He doesn't always do what we want Him to - but He knows what's best for us, and He can be trusted.

Billy Graham

#42. Objectivity, in this sense, means that a person's statements about the world can be trusted if they are submitted to established rules deemed legitimate by a professional community. Facts here are not aspects of the world, but consensually validated statements about it.

Michael Schudson

#43. People can't really be trusted to lie consistently

Veronica Roth

#44. The funny thing about memory is that it can't be fully trusted, and yet, in the end, it's the only truth we have.

Mindscape

#45. I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.

Frederick Douglass

#46. I don't want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care.

Russ Feingold

#47. I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.

Avi Rubin

#48. Most public bathrooms now have automatic toilet sensors. People can't even be trusted to flush.

Dov Davidoff

#49. No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.

Elsa Einstein

#50. Only palteia can be let in the way one allows a small child into one's life. Only a palteia wouldn't take information and turn it against you. They are gifts. They are to be trusted and cherished and protected. All palteia are. You are my palteia.

Lyn Gala

#51. Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.

Peggy O'Mara

#52. I can tell by now that you are wondering whether I can be trusted as a narrator. Why didn't I dump Inge and head for a Singles Bar? The answer is her breasts.

Jeanette Winterson

#53. Let there be consistency in whatever you do and whatever you say. If what you think and say is mismatching with what you do, you can't really be trusted.

Israelmore Ayivor

#54. Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

Taylor Caldwell

#55. Everyone can be trusted. You just can't give them more than they can be trusted with.

Mikaela Bender

#56. God can be trusted. He keeps His promises. He doesn't make any mistakes.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#57. 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

#58. To maintain your integrity, just maintain your words in sanctity, and your works in sincerity. You can't be really trusted when your works of today are standing against your words of yesterday!

Israelmore Ayivor

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. A great team doesn't mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.

Gene Kim

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. Rules only matter if everyone understands them, agrees to them, and can be trusted not to break them. Bearing these irrefutable facts in mind, rules never matter at all.

Seanan McGuire

#65. Confucius said: "I do not see what use a man can be put to, whose word cannot be
trusted."
- The Analects of Confucius, 2.22
Confucius

Judith A. Boss

#66. Of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

G.K. Chesterton

#67. Some people think African states cannot be trusted with the cookie jar. But there are absolutely good NGOs who have this feeling of human solidarity and who also recognize that their work can only be supplementary to the government.

Meles Zenawi

#68. Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: "Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.

Terry Pratchett

#69. A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

Lord Acton

#70. Children are ingenuous. They are also blessed with uncanny ability to read a person's character instantly. Even though they are inexperienced and unsophisticated, they often know instinctively who can be trusted and who is the charlatan.

Wess Stafford

#71. Imagine if one of them were turned. Imagine if one could be bought.'
'But they're chosen just so's they can't be bought ... '
'History ... ' Jacobs spoke with terse authority. Brought Ori to a hush. 'Is all full. And dripping. With the corpses. Of them who trusted the incorruptible.

China Mieville

#72. I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.

Erica Jong

#73. Definition of good neighbor: someone to be trusted; a courteous, friendly source of help when help is needed; someone you can count on; someone who cares.

Edward B. Rust Jr.

#74. Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Joyce Brothers

#75. But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#76. Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?
If it were not for language, could we lie?

Joyce Carol Oates

#77. Nothing is ever the same. Nothing is permanent. Nothing can be trusted to be there. Nothing is safe, including home. Why lie to yourself? Every day we leave something, someone, some observation behind.

Diane Keaton

#78. After trauma the world becomes sharply divided between those who know and those who don't. People who have not shared the traumatic experience cannot be trusted, because they can't understand it. Sadly, this often includes spouses, children, and co-workers. Later

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#79. Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson

#80. There is a force of love present everywhere and it can be trusted to bring your own life into order and peace.

Deepak Chopra

#81. Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#82. If anyone can be trusted, it's the Savior. He's always true, always faithful, loving, kind, right ... He never left me then, but stayed firm and strong, like a rock. I learned - even though it's tough sometimes - my Father knows best.

Ocieanna Fleiss

#83. It's impossible. I can't be your friend. It hurts too much. If I'm ruining you, then you've destroyed me. I finally trusted someone enough to love and you proved that all along it wasn't worth it.

Kimberly Lauren

#84. Seeking the counsel of trusted and respected health professionals can also be helpful in providing parents with some balance for their concerns as well as other avenues of support.

Timothy Carey

#85. Deepest moment. Your recent services to one of the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which can hardly be exaggerated.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#86. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

Walter Savage Landor

#87. The drinking parent lied to the sober parent; the sober parent deceived the drinking parent. Most children of alcoholics have learned that no one can be trusted.

Abraham J. Twerski

#88. No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.

Peter Handke

#89. A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#90. All we have to believe is our senses: the tools we use to perceive the world, our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted.

Neil Gaiman

#91. Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you.

Donna Lynn Hope

#92. Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.

Rudolph Rummel

#93. There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

Rebecca West

#94. In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Albert Einstein

#95. But love like that can be too big, too. It can be something you shouldn't be trusted to hold when you're the kind of person who drops the eggs and breaks the remote control.

Amy Garvey

#96. I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.

Yehudi Menuhin

#97. Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it.

John Oliver

#98. Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#99. I made mistakes. I trusted both too little and too much. But, by the gods, I tried so hard. I gave everything I had.
I have always done the best I could, and yet, somehow,it has never been enough. No one cared what I did. They always turned their backs on me. Why can't I be like that?

Marie Lu

#100. Hell, there are probably people out there right now who consider us to be shiny people (bless their stupid, stupid hearts)and that's pretty much proof that none of our brains can be trusted to accurately measure the value of anyone, much less ourselves.

Jenny Lawson