“You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.”
Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair. These quotes explore faith in others, betrayal, vulnerability, and the courage it takes to extend trust to people who have the power to disappoint you.
“People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.”
“You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.”
“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.”
“I trust no one, not even myself.”
“You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.”
“What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.”
“But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.”
“For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.”
“I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.”
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
“Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?”
“I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.”
“Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.”
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
“So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.”