Quotes About Being Too Reliable

#1. I could be the only sentient being in the universe. If I'm even that much. Because I don't know if there is such a thing as a reliable narrator.

Peter Watts

#2. Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

Martin Seligman

#3. On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

Martin Van Buren

#4. Billions of women must be out there on this seven-billion-person planet being told that they are not reliable witnesses to their own lives, that the truth is not their property, now or ever.

Rebecca Solnit

#5. One of kindness and integrity. I know I fail constantly, but I'm working towards being a reliable and worthy contributor to the world.

Caitlin Stasey

#6. You don't have to listen to those mean girls. They're just there to make you upset and make you feel bad about yourself. And you know, inside, they feel bad about themselves too. But they don't wanna admit it to anybody.

Amanda Seyfried

#7. A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way.

Ludwig Von Mises

#8. Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are, and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.

Gretchen Rubin

#9. If theology means knowledge of God, every woman, serious about her faith, young or old, must be a theologian, must move beyond that 'simple spirit of worship' to the 'complexities of dogma,' dogma being the principles and beliefs forming the core of biblical faith, the only reliable guides for life.

Rosalie De Rosset

#10. As far as my memory being reliable, at the risk of sounding like some sort of gorgeous two-headed monster with the voices of Dave Barry and Erma Bombeck, I do think that women, like elephants, remember everything and love peanuts.

Julie Klausner

#11. Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#12. When I graduated from college, I got a 9-to-5 traditional job doing social media for a company, and I'd spend all day long fighting with the system of getting things approved and the fact that social media has such a quick turnaround. Things had to be very reactive and instant.

Tyler Oakley

#13. Some things were done a certain way and they had been done that same way for ages. Most of the time it was a good thing, a reliable thing, and we grew up being able to count on life being very predictable and very dependable.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#14. As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.

Diane Ackerman

#15. Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.

Jonathan Zittrain

#16. When my turn came, I said I hoped one day to be the dictator of an Islamic republic with nuclear capability; the others appeared shocked, and I was forced to explain that I had been joking.

Mohsin Hamid

#17. Let me say the good are often punished unfairly.

Ann Rinaldi

#18. I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.

Harold S. Kushner

#19. Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange,
brought into being by traders
who discovered that a reliable medium
could facilitate trades that were more difficult
or even impossible by barter alone.

Lawrence Reed

#20. Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Grover Norquist

#21. To process thoughts well is a matter of being able to avoid confusion, detect ambiguities, keep things in mind one at a time, make reliable arguments, become aware of alternatives, and so on.

Simon Blackburn

#22. This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.

Dennis Hughes

#23. My parents separated when I was nine, but my father was always around, and he still follows me now. He is always sending me messages.

Luis Suarez

#24. Happiness is about being proud of who you are. Be a good friend, be a good daughter, be reliable, be willing to laugh when things get tough, compliment other girls, care about your job, believe in yourself, be vulnerable, tell the truth, apologize when needed, forgive people ...

Erin Foster

#25. One would like to know, for most people, being denied reliable telepathic communication, reach for the phone, which they feel is more reliable.

Heinrich Boll

#26. The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.

Gretchen Rubin

#27. Any man can help make a child, but it takes a special man to help raise a child. He must be selfless. He must be responsible. He must be reliable. He must be a role model. Happy Father's Day to the men who are being real fathers.

Tony Gaskins

#28. The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.

Will Self

#29. I cannot tell you ... how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful ... It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.

Ben Stein

#30. Your mind should be in harmony with the functioning of the universe; your body should be in tune with the movement of the universe; body and mind should be bound as one, unified with the activity of the universe.

Morihei Ueshiba

#31. Whats the point of being alive, if you dont at least try to do something reliable

John Green

#32. Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated

Mike Krzyzewski

#33. The working of the mind discover oft
Dark deeds in darkness schemed, before the act.
More hateful still the miscreant who seeks
When caught, to make a virtue of a crime.

Sophocles

#34. In the big picture we are all eternal.

Frederick Lenz

#35. I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.

Tommy Lee

#36. You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

Edward Abbey

#37. Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that's shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them.

Spencer Abraham

#38. Clients do not expect the infrastructure to be any less reliable just because the service is being delivered from an offshore location; thus, the uptime requirements justify the expense.

Sanjay Kumar