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Quotes About Suspicion

Can you imagine there being so many people that you could just murder one and nobody would know who did it right away?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Caucasian. When the officer asked the suspected
~ Geraldine Brooks
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
~ Gertrude Stein
Prior to the arrival of both the president and prime minister, listening devices and directional microphones had been concealed in the principal rooms of both the Villa Vorontsov and the Livadia Palace. Members of the British Military Mission in Moscow—all too familiar with eavesdropping—recommended discussing sensitive issues in the bathrooms, with the taps gushing water to drown out their conversations.
~ Giles Milton
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.
~ Giorgio Agamben
Caleb aveva pensato spesso con un sorriso che se Giulio Cesare fosse stato un cane, a tradirlo sarebbe stato Silent Joe.
~ Giorgio Faletti
It's no surprise to him what any government does, least of all his own.
~ Glen Duncan
Está rodeado de pessoas esquisitas, as quais realmente não compreendo. Não têm aparência de espertalhões, nem de gente honesta. Às vezes parecem-me honestas, mas não consigo confiar nelas.
~ Goethe
Perhaps the only thing worse than having a mole is the fear of having a mole.
~ Gordon Corera
Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
~ J. D. Salinger
To live continually in thoughts of ill will, cynicism, suspicion, and envy, is to be confined in a self made prison-hole.
~ James Allen
Perhaps now, though, he had hit bottom. One thing about the bottom, he told himself, you can't fall any further. He tried to take comfort from this thought. Yet there knocked in his heart the suspicion that the bottom did not really exist.
~ James Baldwin
Perhaps now, though, he had hit bottom. One thing about the bottom, he told himself, you can't fall any farther. He tried to take comfort from this thought. Yet there knocked in his heart the suspicion that the bottom did not really exist.
~ James Baldwin
Once one has begun to suspect this much about the world — once one has begun to suspect, that is, that one is not, and never will be, innocent, for the reason that no one is — some of the self-protective veils between oneself and reality begin to fall away.
~ James Baldwin
And I am not being frivolous now, either. Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become.
~ James Baldwin
The blacks now suspected him of being an ally—though not a friend, never a friend!
~ James Baldwin
I am looking for my wife, whom I suspect to have been carried off by a devil, poor fellow!
~ James Branch Cabell
I got an alibi, just in case you think I did it. Tighter than a crab's ass, and that is air tight.
~ James Ellroy
I'm saying it's so big and audacious that we'll most likely never be suspected. I'm saying that even if we are, the powers that be will realize that it can never be conclusively proven. I'm saying that a consensus of denial will build off of it. I'm saying that people will want to remember the man as something he wasn't. I'm saying that we'll present them with an explanation and the powers that be will prefer it to the truth, even though they know better. Marcello said, Do it. Make it happen
~ James Ellroy
He kept his extralegal shit there. Throwdown guns, burglars' tools, maryjane to plant on suspects.
~ James Ellroy
It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that it's going to take a lot to undo that in our minds.
~ Courtney B. Vance
I believe that women know if their husbands are unfaithful. They feel it.
~ Coretta Scott King
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Never trust anyone Daniel, especially the people you admire
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon