Jim Butcher Quotes

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

One of the reasons my ex-husband and I broke up is that he stopped eating my food.

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.

I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women.

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy.

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.

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

A marriage can go wrong at any time.

I had the feeling after a meeting with company executives that they were at no time wholly frank with me, and this attitude has obtained in all our conferences, etc. regarding this drug.

Nobody believes an official spokesman. Everybody believes an unnamed source.

if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you’re stupid. Did you hear that? Stupid!

We live at a time when people do not have much trust in government.

The biggest problem is when a player asks a captain why he is not playing but does not want an honest answer.

The argument can be made: Maybe you want to trust the government, but you shouldn't because you don't know where things are going to go in the future.

Italians have famously low levels of trust in their government, and a tradition of medical hoaxes.

When you're in a marriage, you can't leave just because you're arguing all the time. But it does stuff to you that you don't realise at first. It damages you, and you start thinking the worst of people.

My husband thinks I'm insane.

So much about Trump is... mysterious and slippery. Everything in his business record, you had to ask him for the details. He made himself the only source. He would either not tell you, or he was often an unreliable narrator about his own life.

'Why Did I Get Married?' did so well because it gave some real perspective on the realities of love.

I think we've now gotten to this point where we're growing more and more distrustful of our institutions, be they government or corporations or otherwise.

If you hear that my soul mate still tells one or more of his exes he loves her, I want to know. Audio recording is preferable.

Looking back, the only person that really surprised me was Chris Vrenna only because I've known him since 1992, and for him not to be able to say it to my face, "Hey, I don't want to do this anymore." Instead, he said "I'll see you tomorrow" and then he never came back. I find that strange. I don't know if he is afraid of me or thinks I'm going to beat him over the head with something. I'm not like that.