Quotes About Suspicion

Trust is the first requisite for making a friend. How can we be anything but alone, if our attitude to men is one of armed neutrality, if we are suspicious, and assertive, and querulous, and over-cautious in our advances?

Childhood and the teen years are periods where diversity leads to discovery and, in the process, teaches. If that process is denied, we learn less and the stranglehold of ignorance breeds suspicion.

Indiscriminate ideological suspicion of any idea, without the urge to exalt an idea of one's own, will discourage rather than promote lucidity.

I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church.

It's better to assume trust and find out that you are wrong than to always assume people are trying to screw you over,

Fact: Eileen had brought that nanny cam into her house. Maya tried to let that go, but the suspicion buzzed in her ear. She could quiet it, but it wouldn't go away, not completely. "What

The pretty blond girl said, "Good evening, Mr. Sutton!" They were both clean-cut and smiling and neatly dressed, and for some reason, a reason Harry couldn't put his finger on—a reason that he'd soon learn was primitive and instinctive and absolutely correct—Harry felt more fear than he'd ever felt in his life.

And Sarah? She is strictly by the book. If Burroughs was set up, if he didn't do it, I'm not like that guy in The Fugitive—remember that movie?

So are you the one who killed those cockwombles?" "No.

There was something more going on here, something darker and more insidious at work. She

He kept replaying his conversation with Winston O'Connor, the first big break in days. Clearly the National Institutes of Health had a strong interest in Sidney Pavilion. The question was why. O'Connor's explanation that the NIH wanted to keep an eye on its interests rang hollow. Why single out the Sidney Pavilion? There had to be a reason. But

That's just it." "What?" "The phone." "What about it?" "It wasn't hers.

The other mothers eyed her with suspicion. Adult suburbia can be a lot like high school.

Myron remained unconvinced. "Even if I agreed to go along with this cockamamy scheme, what about nights? You expect me to watch her twenty-four hours a day?" "Of course not. Win will help you there." "Win has better things to do." "Tell that goy boy-toy it's for me," Norm said. "He loves me." A

I found something in Mercer's room," Walker said in a voice as gray as a tombstone. "I think it belongs to Haley McWaid.

She had spotted three of them, at the very least. Probably more. She had also spotted the B&T Paint van. She'd dialed the number on the van's sign, but it was out of service. She checked with directory assistance. There was no B&T Paint. They

But how did you even know about it?" "Pardon?" "My daughter didn't say anything about calling the police. So how would you know . . . ?" She stopped. Her mind traveled down a few possible paths. All of them were pretty dark. "Mrs.

There were only two: the husband and the fey weirdo in black. Dimonte noted that the husband appeared distraught, though that could be an act. But first things first. Dimonte

It's grown people who always believe the worst

Stephanie Crawford even told me once she woke up in the middle of the night and found him looking in the window at her. I said what did you do, Stephanie, move over in the bed and make room for him? That shut her up for a while.

Conceived in mistrust, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created evil.

She answered: please believe me, what has happened in my family is not what you think. I can say only this—that everything I learned about human decency I learned here. I learned nothing from you except how to be suspicious. I didn't know what hate was until I lived among you and saw you hating every day. They even had to pass laws to keep you from hating.

Almost died first year I come to school and et them pecans—folks say he pizened 'em and put 'em over on the school side of the fence.

Cynical, hell. I'm a healthy old man with a constitutional mistrust of paternalism and government in large doses.