Broken Trust Quotes

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

We bought the son of a bitch, but he didn't stay bought.

Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,-diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.

How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

Damn, tell me where did all the magic go? I followed the rules and told you everything you had to know

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Because the burnt child dreads the fire, we can in the future have no confidence in the words and oaths of the Greeks.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

When I play, maybe 'Back o' Town Blues,' I'm thinking about one of the old, low-down moments - when maybe your woman didn't treat you right. That's a hell of a moment when a woman tell you, 'I got another mule in my stall.'

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered.

A wise prince cannot, nor ought he to, keep faith when such observance may be turned against him, and when the reasons that caused him to pledge it exist no longer. If men were entirely good, this precept would not hold, but because they are bad and will not keep faith with you, you are not bound to observe it with them.

MacArthur told Truman that the ‘boys will be home by Christmas’. Truman forgot to ask, ‘which Christmas?’ They are still there today.

If you break a promise, the outcome is uncertain and the number of people affected is small. But if you refuse to make a promise, the result is certain and produces immediate anger in a larger number of voters..

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.

There are people have grown up with implicit trust. Law enforcement, you name it. It's all gone. There's doubt about everything now. And this is not accidental.

The cheating was sweet, but my heart is beat. Don't tear it apart, please by-pass this heart.