#entrust

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them. ↗

— Horace

#ears #entrusted #gossips #hear #inquisitive

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#desires #destroy #destruction #ends #entrusts

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#entrusted #herself #secrets

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#does #entrust #freedom #history #long

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. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#also #animated #anyone #entrusted #love

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#act #consoles #entrust #even #fact

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#entrust #i #know #like #mother

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#any #being #burning #conscience #death

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#children #cynics #entrust #harm #minds

Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#american #clark #entrusted #honored #i