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Quotes About Suspicion

You don't look like a cop," I told him. "All the other guys wear suits." "I've been asked by the chief not to wear a suit. I look like a casino pit boss when I wear a suit. I don't inspire trust.
~ Janet Evanovich
There was another crunch in the darkness, and I suspected Morelli had accidentally broken something belonging to Kenny. Like his nose, maybe.
~ Janet Evanovich
What do you have?" "A real bad feeling.
~ Janet Evanovich
I was listening to you the whole time. I didn't trust you to hang on to the earbud, so I had a mini-microphone sewn into your shirt. It's just under the rolled hem on the neckline." I glanced at it. "I thought it was just another rhinestone.
~ Janet Evanovich
What if there was no house keeper? What if it had been a ploy to get a woman alone?
~ Janet Evanovich
Why would Munch want barium?
~ Janet Evanovich
Some people just seem like they are up to no good. Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict, and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
~ Gore Vidal
The suspicion that immigrants are not to be trusted or are unpatriotic is not just wrong; it is un-American. And dangerous.
~ Ted Lieu
When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest.
~ Loretta Lynch
When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.
~ Don Kardong
I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions.
~ Eve Babitz
No matter where I go, I always feel unwanted eyes following me. It's a dirty world out there.
~ Tanushree Dutta
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
Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.
~ Mike Rowe
A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.
~ Dan B. Allender
The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible.
~ John le Carre
There was always the paranoid strain in American politics, particularly on the Right.
~ Charlie Sykes
Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
~ Philip K. Dick
I think everyone's always interested in playing a spy, right? That's something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it's just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.
~ Florence Pugh
Let me ask you both something. Is there anything strange that's been going on around the inn lately? I mean besides the murder and theft.
~ Tim Myers
Murder had come back to The Hatteras West Inn, and it was a most unwelcome guest.
~ Tim Myers
To the CIA, everyone's an outsider.
~ Tim Weiner
The leader who dislikes the investigators is a potential tyrant.
~ Timothy Snyder