#fide

It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also. ↗

— Clancy Brown

#also #comfort #confidence #could #father

I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent in the fabric of an otherwise splendid garment I thought I could mend. I thought I could live with it—I thought, yes and I admit it, that I would be different. That at the very least, middle age and children would slow him down; however, they seemed to accelerate his pace. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence. ↗

— John Bruton

#confidence #destroy #economic #nuclear #terrorist

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#atheists #back #children #faith #god

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#analysis #believe #breach #cannot #continue

However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#broad #claim #confidentiality #confrontation #conversations

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#alpha #caricature #male #only #partly

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing. ↗

— Betty Carter

#believe #black #care #confidence #culture

A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make you smile. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#beautiful person #make #person #self-confident #smile

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished. ↗

— Abraham Clark

#almighty #almighty god #cannot #confide #councils