Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
And after all this time that you still owe, you're still a good-for nothing I don't know.
Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)
I don't trust you with my shoe; I wouldn't trust you with an old pair of socks.
An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will engage in actions that mean something else to him than to others, but he is at peace with himself about everything as long as he can make it all come together in a fine idea.
An independent member means a member who cannot be depended upon.
member of Parliament belonging to no political party
And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.
Like how could you do nothing, and say, 'I'm doing my best.' How could you take almost everything, and then come back for the rest? How could you beg me to stay, reach out your hands and plead, and then pack up your eyes and run away as soon as I agreed?
Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure.
I was always a flaky child.
You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.
They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.
The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.
Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.
I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason.
It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.