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Quotes About Suspicion

Here are some other people I don't trust as far as I can throw a truckload of pianos.
~ James Patterson
Well, they can't have done it to every camera in the neighborhood," Loughlin said. "We'll pick them up.
~ James Patterson
He shook his head. "Just — beware of Mr. Chu. He makes Itex look like Sesame Street.
~ James Patterson
I don't like what George Zimmerman did, and I hate that Trayvon Martin is dead. But I also can understand why Zimmerman was suspicious and why he thought Martin was wearing a uniform we all recognize.
~ Richard Cohen
I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.
~ John Bercow
I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.
~ Teju Cole
Back then, in 1968, everything was suspect - family, government, and obviously the family unit in 'Night of the Living Dead' completely collapses. That's what we were focused on.
~ George A. Romero
Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
~ P. Chidambaram
The attacks of September 11 were made possible, in part, by the fact that U.S. law enforcement had a bias that 'rich Saudis are safe Arabs.' Al Qaeda understood that bias and relied on it to operate freely in the United States for years, even when the terrorists were engaged in activities that the authorities considered suspicious.
~ Malcolm Nance
Like most dictators, Col Gaddafi detests the metropolis. His vision of Libya is a kind of Bedouin romantic medievalism, suspicious of universities, theatres, galleries and cafes, and so monitors the cities' inhabitants with paranoid suspicion.
~ Hisham Matar
The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me.
~ Steven Hatfill
My husband came up to Hot Rocks to check up on me, why is still unknown to me because if I was to cheat on him it wouldn't be in a neighborhood bar where he knows I am.
~ Kim Mathers
I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
~ Patricia Marx
All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.
~ Plautus
If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.
~ H. L. Mencken
Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.
~ Gelett Burgess
When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done
~ Kin Hubbard
I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.
~ Susan Estrich
Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.
~ Warren Farrell
The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.
~ William Hazlitt
On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.
~ H.L. Mencken
Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends' secret places.
~ Tana French, The Secret Place
Never trust a woman hoarding a half-eaten bag of M&M's.
~ K.D. Harp, Blackmail
When I first joined 'Dancing with the Stars,' I did not want to do it. It's not what I like, it's not what I believe in... the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake... there is not a lot of reality.
~ Maksim Chmerkovskiy