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To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.

Most of the friends you trust are those you've known for 10 years.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.

You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.

The idea that God's mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous, and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if I'm deserving of God's mercy, I'll get it, regardless of, you know, my beard.

I trust the pictures to tell what I want to say.

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'

It's no fun being a loser. Trust me.

In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.

Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.

There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free.

If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

This relationship is going to be built on trust.

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.

I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

My job is to listen and to ask questions and to be respectful and win the trust of my subjects so that I can work my way into their memories and their point of view.

And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.

Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.

About the only thing that'll stay with you that you can trust all your life is your breath. Your breath will be there at the very last, because when it stops, you will stop.

I was a guy who trusted the government. Now, I don't trust a damn thing they do.

With all the care that women do and all the money we spend to maintain our hair, men can at least take the time to wash their face with a simple inexpensive product that will soften their facial hair so they're not hurting us when we go in for a kiss. Trust me, guys, women will want to kiss you more if you take care of your facial hair.

I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to learn to communicate in a very specific way - in a sort of a semiotic black market. You couldn't really say what you wanted to say; you had to invent ways of doing it. You didn't trust information very much.

It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I'm going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I'm able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.

These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level.

People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I'm going to be playing in something, because he's envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it.

In capital we trust. Capital is our savior, our holy grail, our fountain of youth, or at least health, for banks.

I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don't ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice - it will tell you if how and in what you are investing is right for you.

Trust the material; trust the story that you're telling.

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

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

That is the thing about being a writer; your subject matter may not stay your subject matter if you break their trust by revealing personal and editorialized information about them.

I hold an office in trust, not a title. I don't want to say it's a kamikaze approach to life, but it's ingrained.

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

I'm conservative, and people know where I stand. They can trust me to do what I say I'm going to do. I'm predictable.

I have to trust something that gives me power; I have to believe in something, but in my career I have a lot of moments I cannot explain with God.

Even if you can't afford to travel the world, you can take your children to the museum, zoo or local park. And don't be afraid to take them to grown-up spots. Eating out in a restaurant teaches children how to be quiet and polite and gives them the pleasure of knowing you trust them to behave.

There are so many different ways to lead. The most important thing is to be genuine. To have people around you trust you, trust in what you stand for and who you are. And I think that if people watch you day in and day out and believe in your motives and they believe that you set a high standard for yourself.

Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.

Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review.

I think a good relationship that Mexico could maintain with the United States and vice versa should be based on trust, on opening - openness and constant dialogue that would allow us essentially to define, share objectives and to work towards those so as to avoid activities which are not known to the other government.

I'm not on Twitter or Facebook and don't even use email. I don't trust computers: one day they'll all break down, and everyone will be knackered.

We try to find better solutions - our customers have given us a lot of trust.

I'm not much for cats. I'm terrified of mice. I've worked a lot with elephants, and they are extremely intelligent and sensitive, and thankfully, they seem to like me. You never want to get on the bad side of an elephant. And never trust a chimp.

Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.

If you don't like Beyonce, then it's hard for me to trust you. It's like not liking world peace.

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry

I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.

How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.

When people in positions of trust mislead us - either recklessly, negligently or intentionally - that impacts the republic.

Let no one profess to trust in God, and yet lay up for future wants, otherwise the Lord will first send him to the hoard he has amassed, before He can answer the prayer for more.

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.

Trust me. Sometimes God comes down and puts his hand on you if you're too big in your thoughts.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.