Quotes About Suspicion

It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.

When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one at a time when we have millions of passengers in random screenings I'm not sure is the best way to do it.

What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal democracy,' 'free markets' and 'Europe' with suspicion.

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.

It is better to trust and lose occasionally than always be suspicious and lose every time.

Trust no one at your back unless you want them to bury a knife in it.' (Syn)

I'm not suspicious of success, I'm suspicious of the people who want to attach themselves because of your success.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

Gummy was beaten up, strangled, shot and thrown on an ant hill. That's not the action of a lone killer; that's murder by committee. Who else round here has that kind of muscle? The Colonial Dames of America?

When you're wearing slasher goggles, everything can look like a slasher.

Just wanted for questioning, but shoot on sight if your badge ends in an even number, or if you know somebody whose badge does.

When you're wearing slasher goggles, everything can look like a slasher.

If they's interested, they wouldn't believe it. If they believed it, they'd arrest me.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. —MAHATMA GANDHI

Patrick Henry shot back that the power to resist oppression rests upon the right to possess arms: Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.

I had no reason to feel wary of Huntley.There were no warning signs or anything like that. Little did I know there were allegations against Huntley going back as far as August 1995 ....

Paranoia strikes deep,Into your life it will creep.It starts when you're always afraid.Step out of line, the men come and take you away.

Many eyes are watching you, and many hearts are wary of your presence

took Lorenzo a while to realize what she was doing. Daniela was narrowing the list of suspects by process of elimination! Each time a kid went into the fountain and didn't transform into a sea monster, they knew it wasn't Luca. "Not our kid," Lorenzo said as another one went in. "Not our kid…

As we locked the front door behind us, she said, "How do you keep getting in without my knowing it? Did Jill give you a key without mentioning it to me?" "Trade secret," I said. "What trade is that? Cat burglar?" "Yes, although I prefer the technical term." "What's that?" "Music promoter.

There was an old saying among the Perish that a room full of women was a knife-seller's vision of paradise. 'There will be betrayal.' Oh yes indeed. Betrayal .

Such is the irony of life,» Kruppe proclaimed, raising one pastry-filled hand over his head, «that one learns to distrust the obvious, surrendering instead to insidious suspicion and confused conclusion. But, is Kruppe deceived? Can an eel swim? Hurrah, these seeming muddy waters are home to Kruppe, and his eyes are wide with wonder.»

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.