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Quotes About Suspicion

There's a snake lurking in the grass.
~ Virgil
My job is to be skeptical: skeptical of people like Edward Snowden and skeptical of the U.S. government.
~ Jake Tapper
William Rackham es lo que podríamos llamar un cristiano ateo supersticioso; es decir, cree en un Dios que si bien puede que ya no sea responsable de que salga el sol, de salvar a la reina o de proveer del pan de cada día, sigue siendo el principal sospechoso cuando algo va mal.
~ Michel Faber
Riuchin sapaÅ' ci??ko, czerwony byÅ' jak burak i myÅ›laÅ' tylko o jednym – ?e oto wyhodowaÅ' ?mijÄ™ na wÅ'asnym Å'onie, zajÄ…Å' siÄ™ serdecznie czÅ'owiekiem, który zdemaskowaÅ' siÄ™ jako podstÄ™pny wróg. A co najgorsze, Riuchin byÅ' teraz caÅ'kowicie bezradny – nie bÄ™dzie siÄ™ przecie? wykÅ'ócaÅ' z wariatem!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Nieustannie trzeba przesuwa? wojska, czyta? donosy i skargi, a po?owa z nich to donosy i skargi na mnie!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Representatives of the investigation team and experienced psychiatrists established that the members of the criminal gang, or, perhaps, one of them (suspicion for this fell principally on Korovyev), were hypnotists of unprecedented power
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
this strange case, which smacked of obvious devilry, with an admixture of some hypnotic tricks and distinct criminality
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
A suspicion that he was not as blind as he seemed flashed through my mind, and in vain I tried to assure myself that it is impossible to simulate a cataract.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a position to make any judgment about it? Certainly not. For how can a person with no knowledge of the future understand the meaning of the present? If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?
~ Milan Kundera
Ministers and merchants love nobody.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.
~ William Hazlitt
Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.
~ Dalai Lama
have always suspected suicide, though no pistol was found near the body.  He may have discovered something—God knows what!—so possibly Lady Arabella may herself have killed him.
~ Bram Stoker
My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it.
~ Brandon Mull
You don't get it? He poisonded me! He poisonded me, and you're next. I'm going to die. We're all going to die. -Seth
~ Brandon Mull
That the child she bore him had lived only six months—and died under mysterious circumstances, circumstances that made him suspect she might have had something to do with it?
~ Brenda Novak
Why do I sense hostility on your part, Patrick?" she asks softly, then sips her wine. "Maybe because I'm hostile," I spit out. "Maybe because you sense this.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
and just as the table is about to finally ignore him, to look away and start eating, he sits up and loudly says, pointing an accusing finger at his plate, "It moved!" Timothy glares at him with a contempt so total that I can't fully equal it but I muster enough energy to come close.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Walking with Debbie, our sunglasses on, I suddenly felt I was a model in a commercial, we were a couple in a travelogue who barely knew each other, which led to the notion that I was actually begin watched, that everyone was looking at me, whether they were or not, or that someone hidden, from a vantage point I couldn't see, was monitoring my movements.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
So…" Kimball looks at his book helplessly. "There's nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?" "Well." I sigh. "He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess." Really stumped, I offer, "He… ate a balanced diet.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
I don't trust anyone named Gavin.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Blair thinks about it for a moment and then says slowly, evenly, "If Cliff slept with Didi, then he must have slept with Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Raoul." "Who's Raoul?" Alana and Kim ask at the same time. I open my menu and pretend to read it, wondering if I slept with Raoul. Name seems familiar.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
You're not going to arrest me or anything, are you?" "No.
~ Brian Freeman
know you may think I'm crazy, but I really don't know who we can trust.
~ Brian Freeman