#distrust

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#distrust #division #more #need #now

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#both #distrust #issue #least #men

What do I need to do to get you to trust me?   What do you want from me?”   He yells. I steel myself and look up into his panicked eyes and fight the pull I feel at coming in contact with those sapphires again.   “Nothing! I don’t want anything from you!”   I shout out the biggest lie I have ever told in my entire life.   Connor’s eyes widen at my words and his face falls, every ounce of fire gone from his gaze.   He backs away then smiles weakly at me. “Well, Merry Fucking Christmas Nina, because you have it all anyway. ↗

— Devon Herrera

#misconceptions #life

The world order needs a major overhaul. ↗

— George Soros

#distrustte #partisan #philanthropy #age

Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular. ↗

— Brando Skyhorse

#faith #irony #pessimism #religion #trinity

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

— Franz Boas

#bane #civilization #disease #distrust #modern

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabic #became #country #distrusted #european

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#authority #away #consistently #distrust #give

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#angry #capacity #daily #daily life #deceitful

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

— Tennessee Williams

#betrayal #defense #distrust #each #only