Quotes about Reliability

If you break little promises you'll break big ones. That's what you said.

I got no use for a man piss backwards on his friends.

Do you think I lie to you? No. But you think I might lie to you about dying. Yes. Okay. I might. But we're not dying. Okay.

All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didnt have a reason for it. Yessir. But there aint but one reason. Yessir. You know what it is? No sir. It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be. Yessir.

Here beyond men's judgements all covenants were brittle.

I only know that every act which has no heart will be found out in the end.

You have an independent income, the only thing that never lets you down.

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it. It humbles me that companies want me. It's a challenge to uphold their values and make their product look good. I take that personally.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.