Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.[Dave Barry] Quote:Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.[Aristotle] Quote:The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.[Stephen King] Quote:Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.[Alexander Hamilton] Quote:I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.[Daniel Webster] Quote:I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed.[Michael Jordan] Quote:I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.[Mother Teresa] Quote:As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safetly be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.[Adam Smith] Quote:Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.[Margaret Bourke-White] Quote:Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs.[Ansel Adams] Quote:To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.[George MacDonald] Quote:A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.[P.J. O'Rourke] Quote:The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.[Adam Smith] Quote:Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. [Aesop] Quote:But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer. [Niccolo Machiavelli] Quote:War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. [Georges Clemenceau] Quote:Seek simplicity, and distrust it. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. [Henri-Frdric Amiel] Quote:The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. [H. L. Mencken] Definitions of: trustDefinition: Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.Definition: Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust. Definition: Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief. Definition: That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit. Definition: The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office. Definition: That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope. Definition: An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust. Definition: An equitable right or interest in property distinct from the legal ownership thereof; a use (as it existed before the Statute of Uses); also, a property interest held by one person for the benefit of another. Trusts are active, or special, express, implied, constructive, etc. In a passive trust the trustee simply has title to the trust property, while its control and management are in the beneficiary. Definition: A business organization or combination consisting of a number of firms or corporations operating, and often united, under an agreement creating a trust (in sense 1), esp. one formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; often, opprobriously, a combination formed for the purpose of controlling or monopolizing a trade, industry, or business, by doing acts in restraint or trade; as, a sugar trust. A trust may take the form of a corporation or of a body of persons or corporations acting together by mutual arrangement, as under a contract or a so-called gentlemen's agreement. When it consists of corporations it may be effected by putting a majority of their stock either in the hands of a board of trustees (whence the name trust for the combination) or by transferring a majority to a holding company. The advantages of a trust are partly due to the economies made possible in carrying on a large business, as well as the doing away with competition. In the United States severe statutes against trusts have been passed by the Federal government and in many States, with elaborate statutory definitions. Definition: To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us. Definition: To give credence to; to believe; to credit. Definition: To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object. Definition: to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something. Definition: To commit, as to one's care; to intrust. Definition: To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods. Definition: To risk; to venture confidently. |
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