Quotes About Suspicion

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.

Once launched in the dizzy path of jealousy, lovers invariably give full sway to their imaginations and entertain the wildest ideas.

If one is willing to go down this path, retinal pessimism is not just about the non-color that is black, but it is about the perception of color itself. It is, ultimately, the suspicion that all colors are black, that all retinal activity is retinal inactivity. Retinal pessimism: there is nothing to see (and you're seeing it).

Happiness in other people makes me suspicious.

Having virtually invented a paid profession and being almost exclusively available to the rich, doctors were suspect to the working class.

Meanwhile, when I walk home from the train station at night I watch unmarked cars pull in front of black teenagers, who are patted down quickly and wordlessly. Some of the teenagers, my husband observes, carry their IDs in clear cases hanging from their belts for easy access.

I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil.

Kat threw a glance over her shoulder, apparently checking to be sure they weren't being followed. When she saw nothing, she slacked her rapid pace a bit. "I've just had it up to my eyeballs with those guys. Them and their stupid feelings." "What

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.

But the eyes of jealousy are very sharp, and Hera saw them.

Quand on s'est habitué aux mensonges, la vérité a l'air suspecte.

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

What happens in many of these cases is that, in the absence of evidence, the crime is pinned on a person of low social standing who is known to be in the vicinity of the crime. We have seen this repeatedly.

and has created an atmosphere of suspicion

I don't trust these stairs because they are always up to something.

It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

I used to dig in the garden, and there isn't anything fantastic or ultradimensional about crab grass... unless you are a SF writer, in which case, pretty soon you're viewing crabgrass with suspicion. What are its real motives? And who sent it in the first place? The question I always found myself asking was, 'What is it, really?'

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

I lead a very conventional life. I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. This was more true when I was living in California, when I didn't lead a writer's life at all.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.

She found her regard for Mr. Winter turning to something like suspicion—though notice how often we lower suspicion upon others to avoid putting ourselves under scrutiny. Now