Distrustful Quotes

#1. In practice, American modernizers tended to be distrustful of populist politics and inclined to favor elite-led societies; often they turned to modernization as a means of counterinsurgency and social control.

Fredrik Logevall

#2. 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 on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers' eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.

Charles Dickens

#3. He was suspicious, distrustful and greedy, as only a brother could be.

Peter James West

#4. The treacherous are ever distrustful.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. The 2-week delay of her letters had caused me to keep a distrustful eye on Hallie, like a star so many light years away it could have exploded long ago while we still watched its false shine.

Barbara Kingsolver

#6. He thought it probable that Miss Brooke liked him, and manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful.

George Eliot

#7. How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!

John Newton

#8. I knew exactly how he felt because I had walked in his shoes, wary and distrustful, unable to believe anybody could care about me without asking for something in return.

Ann Aguirre

#9. By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

Don Feder

#10. Her voice was as soft and sexy as ever. Those wide-set
blue eyes every bit as distrustful as they'd been during his last
encounter with her, which meant that chip on her shoulder, the
one he'd tried so desperately to dislodge, remained firmly in place.

Jackie Braun

#11. I think what I learned in research is that as Americans, we're very distrustful of anger. We're not sure if we should repress it. The idea that anger is supposed to be controlled is American, and we try to keep it out of our homes.

Koren Zailckas

#12. I am not a morning person. Never have been - never want to be. As a matter of fact, I am vaguely distrustful of people who bound out of bed early like demented puppies. It's barbaric to wake up before 9:00 a.m.

P.C. Cast

#13. 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

#14. The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

James Lasdun

#15. My parents were distrustful of the outside world. They didn't think much good came out of it ... The outside world was this strange place that was not so much dangerous as not as interesting as what went on in the house.

Kevin Wilson

#16. There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.

Kevin Bacon

#17. I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#18. I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

Peter Thiel

#19. 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 world which was meant to be taken seriously ...

L.M. Montgomery

#20. The almost universal nature of within-group amity and between-group
enmity, wherein the rule-of-thumb heuristic is to trust in-group
members until they prove otherwise to be distrustful, and to distrust
out-group members until they prove otherwise to be trustful.

Michael Shermer

#21. I get to the bottom of why I'm so upset. When I do, it's almost too Mortifying to admit. All this months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly.

Suzanne Collins

#22. It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

James Baldwin

#23. 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 am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.

Suzanne Collins

#24. What's called art now probably has some legitimate things happening in it, but I've become more and more distrustful of a lot of it because it seems like an extension of the fashion trade and the stock market.

Art Spiegelman

#25. A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.

Roshani Chokshi

#26. I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasure because I never found mine. And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world.

Paulo Coelho

#27. No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence, or whose attitude is patronizing.

E.B. White

#28. I, who even as a child had been so distrustful of music (not because it took me out of myself more powerfully than anything else, but because I had noticed that it did not put me back where it had found me, but left me deeper down, somewhere in the heart of things unfinished) ...

Rainer Maria Rilke

#29. Punishment always has "fallout." That is you may punish a behaviour you didn't intend to decrease, or you may promote aggression because of missed associations. Your dog may become distrustful of you. Punishment can contribute to arousal and anxiety levels, pushing them ever higher.

Brenda Aloff

#30. The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England

Bernard Baruch

#31. People who use the sensing mode are engrossed in what is around them, look only for facts, and find it less interesting to deal with ideas or abstractions. Intuitive people like to dwell in the unseen world of ideas and possibilities, distrustful of physical reality. Whatever

Tom Butler-Bowdon

#32. How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped With the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

Laurence Sterne

#33. The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of smug bibilolatrists who claim to know precisely what God is thinking and exactly what he plans to do.

Brennan Manning

#34. I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.

Laura Fraser

#35. My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.

David Mitchell

#36. The nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of their government? They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways.

Sharron Angle

#37. In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.

Bill Vaughan

#38. Lonely now and miserably self-distrustful, I took sides, not without resentment, against myself and for everything that hurt me and was hard to me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#39. The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place, because, such as it is, it is better than nothing.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#40. Do not be deceitful.
Do not be disdainful.
Do not be distrustful.
Do not be disgraceful.
Do not be disrespectful.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#41. A wicked man is distrustful, and fear is commonly found in those who are able to inspire it.

Jules Verne

#42. I have become distrustful of teachings and learning, and I have little faith in words that come to us from teachers. But, very well, my friend - I am ready to hear this new teaching, although I believe in my heart that I have already tasted the best fruit of it.

Hermann Hesse

#43. Cops were distrustful; they always wanted to know why you decided to dig a hole in the middle of nowhere.

Lou Harper

#44. 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 no center of union and no common interest.

Josiah Tucker

#45. Misunderstanding and distrust - the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.

Carmen DeSousa