Top 32 Distrusts Quotes
#1. Paranoid art, unlike paranoid persons, also distrusts itself. And so, paranoid art is the ultimate opposite, the urgent opposite, of complacent art.
Jonathan Lethem
#2. Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
H.L. Mencken
#4. A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.
Mignon McLaughlin
#7. Totally self-reliant, he is a master negotiator. He believes no one, expects the worst of people, distrusts his allies and adversaries alike and makes no pretense at intimacy.
Mark Stevens
#8. The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality - for this touchstone can be only oneself.
James Baldwin
#9. The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
Brian Moore
#10. The fact is, one shouldn't go to parties when one is in love. It makes one act aloof and superior and everyone distrusts you.
Rosamond Lehmann
#11. As a scientific rationalist, Freud distrusts the manifest content of dreams.
Sigmund Freud
#12. The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
Camillo Di Cavour
#13. He also deeply distrusts vampires, as you had guessed yourself," Bones added. "Aside from that, all I heard was enough repetitions of 'how many chucks could a woodchuck chuck' to make me want to stake myself.
Jeaniene Frost
#14. Bacon distrusts the people, who were in his day quite without access to education; "the lowest of all flatteries is the flattery of the common people";41 and "Phocion took it right, who, being applauded by the multitude, asked, What had he done amiss?
Will Durant
#15. He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.
Rabindranath Tagore
#16. Prince William's smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out.
Tina Brown
#17. I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts,
Terry Pratchett
#18. A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
Taylor Caldwell
#19. Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
William Temple
#20. One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
Idries Shah
#21. Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
Maya Angelou
#22. I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.
Henry Miller
#23. It is not required that we know all of the details about every stretch of the river. Indeed, were we to know, it would not be an adventure, and I wonder if there would be much point in the journey.
Jeffrey R. Anderson
#24. I'm also a book nerd so aside from my life and my opinions, you could say my lyrics are inspired in some sense by the writings of Guy Debord, John Berryman, Georges Bataille, T.S. Eliot, Albert Camus, Bukowski, Artaud, Derrick Jensen and bunch of other people.
Dominic Owen Mallary
#25. I think the durability of the sedan as well as its worldwide appeal argues well for it as a concept that resonates with people's ideas about how their lives are oriented. They understand the difference between an area for powertrain, an area for people, and an area for their stuff.
Chris Bangle
#26. New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say.
P. J. O'Rourke
#27. It is the '94 race which in many ways allowed Ted Kennedy to become his own man rather than the 'third brother.' He had to reach down and win it on his own.
Chuck Todd
#28. Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life.
Beeban Kidron
#29. As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
Talulah Riley
#30. The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
Oscar Wilde
#31. I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
William Weld
#32. You have a deep desire to be right all of the time and a deeper desire to see yourself in a positive light both morally and behaviorally. You can stretch your mind pretty far to achieve these goals.
David McRaney
