Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

While these attitudes are more visible when direct- ed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.

Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.