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Quotes About Suspicion

La soga parecía tranquila cuando dormía sobre la mesa o en el suelo.Nadie la hubiera creído capaz de ahorcar a nadie.
~ Silvina Ocampo
While it cannot be denied that the state's enhanced role in the mid-twentieth century necessitated a larger bureaucracy, or that the officials of CORFO (for instance) served their country well, the suspicion remains that the expanded public administration was (to adapt the celebrated phrase about the British empire) in part a system of indoor relief for the Chilean middle class.
~ Simon Collier
Dennis, please. I don't know what-" "Shut the fuck up, and stop playing me for an idiot. And secondly, and more importantly, I've unearthed some disturbing information about you which I want to discuss in more detail before I fill you with holes.
~ Simon Kernick
I kept expecting the nurses and patients to come suddenly alive, and raise the alarm, or even attack us. Instead, the nurses stood very still, and the patients lay unmoving in their beds, like toys that weren't currently being played with. A horrible suspicion came over me, that perhaps the whole world was like this, whenever I turned my back . . . By the time we got to the far doors, I was practically running.
~ Simon R. Green
1847, the Emperor's favourite, but: the Preobrazhensky Regiment... got totally drunk. The Pavlovsky, our revolutionary buttress, also couldn't resist. We sent guards from other picked units - all got utterly drunk. We posted guards from the Regimental Committees - they succumbed as well. We despatched armoured cars to drive away the crowd, but after a while they also began to weave suspiciously. When evening came, a violent bacchanalia overflowed.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesnt?
~ Homaro Cantu
Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?
~ John Steinbeck
the dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
~ Max Beerbohm
But I mean, c'mon! Magic potions? Tell me you wouldn't be losing it too!
~ Max Brooks
The black mother perceives destruction at every door, ruination at each window, and even she herself is not beyond her own suspicion.
~ Maya Angelou
Maybe the cops have got him. The knowledge of what police do to black men rose wraithlike before my eyes.
~ Maya Angelou
I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. They shield themselves with an aura of unavailableness (for which after a time they begin to take credit) largely as a defense tactic. In my particular case, I could not hide behind the curtain of voluntary goodness. I was being crushed by two unrelenting forces: the uneasy suspicion that I might not be a normal female and my newly awakening sexual appetite.
~ Maya Angelou
What are the two of you whispering about?" Alaric demanded irritably. She glanced over to see the warrior watching her, his eyes narrow with suspicion. "If I wanted you to know, I'd have spoken louder," she said calmly. He turned away muttering what she was sure were more blasphemies about annoying females. "You must make the priest weary with the length of your confessions," she said. He raised one eyebrow. "Who says I confess anything?
~ Maya Banks
Alaric grunted. "Someone should tell her that. I'm telling you, Ewan, she said nothing. She stared at me like I was some kind of toad. Worse, she had Crispen acting like I was the enemy. The two whispered like 104/756 conspirators and glared at me when I dared intervene.
~ Maya Banks
You're a hard-core cynic
~ Maya Banks
Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.
~ Meg Cabot
I staggered into the bathroom to change into my pj's - hey, I was pretty sure Jesse wasn't spying on me, but he still hadn't told me how he'd died, so I wasn't taking any chances. He could have been hanged, you know, for Peeping Tomism, which I believed happened occasionally a hundred and fifty years ago.
~ Meg Cabot
On a whiteboard, a detective had written Tips called in: 452. Tips cleared: GET TO WORK.
~ Meg Gardiner
Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.
~ Meg Rosoff
out the pins. "All detectives wear badges. These
~ Megan McDonald
A liar thinks everyone else lies? ... A thief thinks everyone else is stealing from him? ... A philanderer thinks everyone else is philandering.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
The only thing I knew was that I didn't know anything, really, about the king of the Attolians, and I didn't trust him.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
The Attolian king obviously had a deep well of spite and I would've appreciated his low cunning more if I hadn't thought the Attolian was about to wring my neck.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
you're the liar - Mimi Force
~ Melissa de la Cruz