#distrust

A usurper always distrusts the whole world. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#distrusts #whole #world

If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#disappointment #distrust #failure #attitude

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#current #current situation #degree #distrust #exacerbated

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. ↗

— Franz Boas

#bane #civilization #disease #distrust #modern

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

#distrust #kind #kittens #like #other

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#betrayal #defense #distrust #each #only

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much. ↗

— John Wooden

#abraham lincoln #disappointed #distrust #find #i

A month ago, Gavin had given his employer four weeks' notice. "I'll get a job around here," he'd told her. "Something low-stress, part-time, maybe. We're not paying rent, and Dad's left us plenty. You should quit, too." A year earlier this news would have filled her with delicious, full fat, chocolate-coated joy. But now, after a grueling routine of shitty work, shitty- weird home life in a house where the shadow of a dead boy walked more solidly than the grownups, shitty headaches, shitty worry about a husband who couldn't keep his dick out of other women, the golden offer just weirded Laine out. She didn't trust it. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#distancing-self #distrust #haunted #husband #jaded