Before I was elected to represent southwestern Texas in the U.S. Congress, I spent almost a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA. I served in places where Russia has geopolitical interests, and learned that Russia has one simple goal: to erode trust in democratic institutions.
— Will Hurd
In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.
— Wendy Kopp
Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
— Wayne Dyer
Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
— Walter Gilbert
It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
— W. G. Sebald
There are still many places around the globe I would like to explore, and I'm going to trust my modeling career to take me to at least some of them!
— Vittoria Ceretti
Trust one who has tried.
— Virgil
Trust your instincts, and the best way to trust them is to practice them.
— Vincent Rodriguez III
Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.
— Vincent Cassel
Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
— Viktor E. Frankl
When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.
— Viggo Mortensen
When we step out in faith and use the talents He's given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed.
— Victoria Osteen
Interior design is a business of trust.
— Venus Williams
Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
— Vanessa Paradis
I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
— Vance McAllister
I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.
— Valerie Plame
I wouldn't put a big trust in what people in Silicon Valley say. They may be good at manipulating ones and zeroes and writing software, but beyond that, their contribution to human progress has been pretty dismal. I'm not impressed.
— Vaclav Smil
Being able to put your blinders on, ignore negative opinions, and follow your strong intuition is what's validating to me. It's a great feeling to know you can trust your gut.
— Whitney Wolfe Herd
Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.
— Wayne Rogers
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
— Warren Bennis
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
— Walter Anderson
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
— W. C. Fields
I've always had it inside - this ability to read people, how to get into someone else's head and help them with their problems. And I love when people trust me with their feelings and I can get into any kind of dialogue with them about their inner stuff. I think it's the thing I enjoy most besides modeling.
Trust not too much to appearances.
I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.
— Vincent Gallo
I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker... Really, I think trust is something that comes from the gut. And I think you have to - it's probably the worst advice to give people - but I think you gotta trust people from your gut.
— Vin Diesel
I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.
— Vik Muniz
I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
— Victoria Woodhull
You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.
— Victoria Beckham
Astrology is interesting but not very accurate. It's a science I don't trust very much.
— Varg Vikernes
Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.
— Vanessa Lachey
Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.
There is definitely a sense that when you, as a CIA ops officer... are handling assets, they are delivering to you their trust and their well-being. And you feel very protective of them, even if they're not very nice people.
My parents support and trust me a lot. They know I would never do anything that will be wrong for me and even if it is, they know I would be smart enough to own up and take a stand for myself, be responsible with what I'm doing.
— Vaani Kapoor
You need more than a year to grow on somebody, and it's very intimate being invited into people's homes every day. Once that trust is built, then you're like that old friend. That's the sweet spot.
— Wendy Williams
There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust.
— Wayne Knight
We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.
— Walter Isaacson
I want President Obama to want to take your guns away. I don't trust you with your guns. I don't trust you to fire them safely. I don't trust you to store them safely. I don't trust your kids not to find them. I don't trust you not to get them stolen.
— W. Kamau Bell
My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this.
— Vladimir Putin
The main advantage of blockchain technology is supposed to be that it's more secure, but new technologies are generally hard for people to trust, and this paradox can't really be avoided.
— Vitalik Buterin
I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy.
— Vir Das
When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
— Vincent D'Onofrio
I always have issues with trust.
I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to learn to communicate in a very specific way - in a sort of a semiotic black market. You couldn't really say what you wanted to say; you had to invent ways of doing it. You didn't trust information very much.
As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.
— Victoria Pendleton
I know from my experience as a swimmer that you put in the work and practice, and come game day, your body is ready, and you just have to trust your training.
— Victoria Arlen
You should never trust anything reported by the media. Their first priority is to spread propaganda; their second priority is to make money. They never really care if they tell the truth or not.
We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are often purposeful - if not consciously so; a way to test the strength of a bond and establish trust in a new parent.
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh
If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.
Own your choices. Don't feel ashamed about what you're doing, trust yourself that you're a good parent, don't let anybody else shame you, and, certainly, don't shame yourself.
— Valerie Jarrett