Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Umberto Eco

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

Robert C. Solomon

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

Robert C. Solomon

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

Robert C. Solomon

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

Robert C. Solomon

Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.

Robert C. Solomon

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

Robert W. Service

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Vittorio Alfieri

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

Walker Percy

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

Milan Kundera

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

Octavio Paz

Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.

Oprah Winfrey

You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

Freya Stark

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

Alan Shearer

There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.

Claire Messud

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

Amy Poehler

Forgiveness is something that's always possibility.

Ann Brashares

When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.