Jan Koum Quotes

I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.

Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

I always have doubts. I am weary of people.

When you don't trust people all of the sudden you stop trusting anything.

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.

I still harbor lingering doubts about most people. I guess I always will.

I'm always suspicious of people, especially being in a weird realm of people kind of knowing me... and not knowing what people's motives might be.

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.

I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.

She knew few words and believed in none.

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.

There's really kind of nobody we can trust.

We have been trying to point out that this concept of an indefinitely favorable future is dangerous, even if it is true; because even if it is true you can easily overvalue the security, since you make it worth anything you want it to be worth. Beyond this, it is particularly dangerous too, because sometimes your ideas of the future turn out to be wrong. Then you have paid an awful lot for a future that isn't there. Your position then is pretty bad.

No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere.

And trust dies from ifs and buts

It's not that I don't trust you, Dunstable, it's simply that I don't trust you.

The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing.

I don't trust him. We're friends.

Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

You just let people do what they do and look at them and give them enough rope until they do what you thought they were going to do... which is screw you over.

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

I can't help but be a little more gun-shy and wary about people.

I never cheated, for the record, back when I was with you. But you believed in everything but me girl, I don't get you