Joe Frazier Quotes

You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.

It's unbearable to see the people betrayed time and again by politicians who don't keep their promises and by the technocrats at the European Union.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

You can't trust very many people.

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

Our representatives are betrayers of the people.

I reappointed him and he disappointed me.

As the trust deficit persists, a deeper rot takes hold: Attitudes and norms begin to change. When no one is trustworthy, it will be only fools who trust. The concept of fairness itself is eroded.

When you look around, and very close trusted people who would never cash you in, for lack of better words, and those people do that and people leave your house and tell completely different stories, you tend not to trust people.

When winning is everything and everyone does whatever they need to win and to not lose, including lying, you have a world in which 'basic trust' is lost.

If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.

You feel everybody has your best interests in mind, but you come to find out that's not necessarily the case.

Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.

I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would eventually encounter in terms of people who weren't being sincere. I'm not saying that it happens always or a lot, but it happens enough that sometimes it makes me feel a little queasy.

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

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

It's part of my responsibility, as an actor who has been lucky enough to have this job, to take my job very seriously, show up on time, know my lines, and give the best performance that I can because I'm doing something that so many other people work very hard to have and never get.

If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.

I can't compete with making promises you can't keep.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

When you're a professional you gotta do it [your job] when you don't feel like doing it.