„Don't try to undermine my confidence in you“
Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Contexto: "You." A finger the size of a corncob, an inch from Slothrop's nose.
...
"Look," Slothrop's friend producing a kraft-paper envelope that even in the gloom Slothrop can tell is fat with American Army yellow-seal scrip, "I want you to hold this for me, till I ask for it back. It looks like Italo is going to get here before Tamara, and I'm not sure which one"
"At this rate, Tamara's gonna get here before tonight," Slothrop interjects in a Groucho Marx voice.
"Don't try to undermine my confidence in you," advises the Large One. "You're the man."
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novelistas norteamericanos 1937Citas similares
„Never give up hope, try with confidence; you will be successful.“
— Arifur Rahman Award-winning Cartoonist, Animator, Illustrator 1984
Fuente: Quoted in Animation short film Try, which was written and directed by him in 2010.
— Alex Kozinski American judge 1950
Concluding words of dissent from a denial of rehearing en banc in United States v. Ziegler http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=995042337184945695, 2007.
— John McDonnell British politician (born 1951) 1951
Fuente: EU referendum result must be respected, says John McDonnell https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36680463 BBC News (1 July 2016)
— A. C. Grayling English philosopher 1949
Fuente: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 2, “Moral Education” (p. 7)
„Confidence is a feeling you get when you don't REALLY understand the situation.“
— James P. Hogan, libro Code of the Lifemaker
Code of the Lifemaker (1983)
— Robert Aumann Israeli-American mathematician 1930
From an article on Israel Hayom http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=23811
„If you keep on working and you don't tell people what you are doing, they lose confidence.“
— Kemi Adeosun Nigerian accountant, investment banker and politician (born 1967) 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNQTPE7gomU Kemi explains how the government needs to report to its people and let them know what they are doing.
— Erika Jayne American singer, actress and television personality 1969
Interview to Cosmopolitan (2016)
„My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence.“
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah Founder and 1st Governor General of Pakistan 1876 - 1948
Eid-ul-Azha Message to the Nation (24 October 1947)
Contexto: My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
George; "buck" here means to work at lifting and throwing the sacks of barley
Of Mice and Men (1937)
„That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.“
— Diana Wynne Jones, libro El castillo ambulante
Fuente: Howl's Moving Castle
— Joni Madraiwiwi Fijian politician 1957 - 2016
Address to Transparency International Fiji book launch, 9 December 2005.
— Ozzy Osbourne English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter 1948
I Don't Wanna Stop.
Song lyrics, Black Rain (2007)
