Pastoral Resources

You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

I have to trust what I do and then do it.

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.

My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.