Limahl Quotes

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.

Trust is always a good idea. For someone else.

Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.

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

Trust not a new friend or an old enemy.

Politics—where they pat you on the back so they'll know where to stick the knife.

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

I would rather betray others, than have others betray me

We wouldn’t want to live in a world where we couldn’t be conned. Because, in effect, we would then be living in a world where we mistrusted or refused to trust anyone.

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.

You've just got to be wary around people. You don't know what they want from you. Just in L.A., people have questionable motives. Everybody's kind of got an angle. You've got to be aware of that.

Trust has always been a hard issue in my life, and when I was with the UFC, it was hard for me to trust people because it was like I was seeing lies, up to lies, up to lies.

It's hard to trust people when your own friends seem to think poorly of you.

Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.

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

We have to look at our history and realize that if they pretend to be our friend it's because they've got something up their sleeve.