Quotes About Suspicion

The life of the sane, average man was dull, worse than death. There seemed to be no possible alternative. Education also seemed to be a trap. The little education I had allowed myself had made me more suspicious. What were doctors, lawyers, scientists? They were just men who allowed themselves to be deprived of their freedom to think and act as individuals. I went back to my shack and drank ...

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

downers some people grind away making their unhappiness the ultimate factor of their existence until finally they are just automatically unhappy, their suspicious upset snarling selves grinding on and at and for and through their only relief being to meet another unhappy person or to create one.

are you paranoid?" he asks. "of course. what sane man is not?

Joe wasn't coming. It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

Then there are guys who fuck you and then chop you up into little pieces. They find parts of your asshole stuffed up a drainpipe in Playa del Rey and your left tit in a trashcan down at Oceanside...

Adriana had so well profited by the good counsel of her mother-in-law, that she never after cherished unjust suspicions, or was jealous of her husband.[Pg 189]

Nothing makes a man sound crazier than to describe what crazy people are trying to do to him.

I'm afraid we shall find evidence of treason: if not, look harder.

I had a polite disagreement with Chief Inspector Grabby Hands." Chief Inspector Barrett. "It was him or me, and he had rank. Do you need me to draw you a diagram?" "No, that won't be necessary." Gibson nodded to himself, as if confirming a suspicion. He seemed indecently satisfied, but she was damned if she could see why.

Mug of Joe," grunts Johnny. "Mocha venti with an extra shot for me, no cream," I add. "Anything else?" I shake my head and she wanders off. Johnny looks suspicious. "Since when do you speak Starbucks?" I shrug. "It's not as if I can help it; they've got our office surrounded, and they don't like it if you try to order in English." We wait

What could have been Henry Cutter's

have you killed me, false thief?

I believe people who shower twice a day are hiding a secret, or a sandwich.

I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.

I have always been afraid of banks.

I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me.

What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.

There will always be people who question your motives.

especially as they did not trust one another.

Society had become divided into two ideologically hostile camps, and each side viewed the other with suspicion.

There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.

Maybe that's why he was so quick to finger Ackbar in the first place

In valuing the image over the word, we fall victim to the image's appearance of full revelation. Whereas the word prompts suspicion and questioning, the image produces belief and devotion. It is in this sense that Gilroy sees a latent fascism in the contemporary elevation of the image. The image today signifies the possibility of a completely successful process of manipulation.