As quoted at UNICEF.org http://www.unicef.org/people/people_audrey_hepburn.html
Contexte: I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II, I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.
„That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits is eternal.“
Non est diuturna possessio in quam gladio ducimus; beneficiorum gratia sempiterna est.
— Quintus Curtius Rufus Roman historian
VIII, 8, 11.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book VIII
„To feel. To trust the feeling. I long for that“
— Ingmar Bergman Swedish filmmaker 1918 - 2007
Source: Face to Face: A Film
„Does trust have to be earned? Or is it simply a matter of faith?“
— Nicholas Sparks, livre At First Sight
Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 7, p. 105
Variante: Do trust have to be earned? Or is it simple a matter of faith?
Source: 2000s, At First Sight (2005)
„Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!“
— Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Source: The Godfather
„He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.“
— Albert Schweitzer French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher 1875 - 1965
Source: Reverence for Life: The Words of Albert Schweitzer
„Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.“
— Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
326
Stray Birds (1916)
„Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you.
Can I trust him?
What do I have to lose?“
— Robin McKinley, livre Sunshine
Source: Sunshine
„Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?“
— Pierre Corneille, Nicomède
Seigneur, si j'ai raison, qu'importe à qui je sois?
Nicomède, act I, scene ii.
Nicomède (1651)
— Antonio Porchia Italian Argentinian poet 1885 - 1968
Lo que dicen las palabras no dura. Duran las palabres. Porque las palabras son siempre las mismas y lo que dicen no es nunca lo mismo.
Voces (1943)
— Theresa May Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1956
Theresa May quits: UK set for new PM by end of July https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48395905 BBC News (24 May 2019)
2010s, On Brexit
— Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962
Other
„After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.“
— Evelyn Waugh, livre Vile Bodies
Source: Vile Bodies
— The Mother spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo 1878 - 1973
How she felt when she sat down at the feet of Sri Aurobindo, quoted in "Diary notes and Meeting with Sri Aurobindo" and also in The Mother (of Sri Aurobindo Ashram) Prema Nandakumar of National Book Trust, India, (1977) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=R1sqAAAAYAAJ, p. 23
„Gratitude is what we are without a story.“
— Byron Katie American spiritual writer 1942
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
— Victor Hugo French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802 - 1885
Though research done for Wikiquote indicates that the attribution of this remark to Hugo seems extensive on the internet, no source has been identified. It seems to be a statement a modern satirist might make, derived from one made circa 1910 by Mrs Patrick Campbell regarding homosexuals: "Does it really matter what these affectionate people do — so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses?"
Disputed
„I wouldn’t trust you if you were the last life raft leaving the Titanic.”-max“
— James Patterson American author 1947
Source: Fang
