Quotes About Suspicion

He would rather the man be a pervert than a police officer

Hum, said Morris, returning the note. Terrible spelling. And it smells like a trap, you realize? ''Yes. But I think I dare not ignore it

Few people are logical. Most of us are prejudiced and biased. Most of us are blighted with preconceived notions, with jealousy, suspicion, fear, envy and pride.

When change is bumpy and messy, particularly if it impels others to change, it is viewed with suspicion and rancor usually reserved for the worst heretics.

Langdon whispered to Vittoria. 'Ever fire anything other than a tranquilizer gun?' 'Don't you trust me?' 'Trust you? I barely know you.' Vittoria frowned. 'And here I thought we were newly-weds.

I've learned to expect the worst from people who hold power.

Something was very, very wrong.

Ze had het gevoel dat ze in de gaten werd gehouden, niet door iemand van vlees en bloed, maar door geesten in het donker.

She looked at me as if I might be one of them a spy from the world of the ignorant.

Right now I have the suspicion that the ace of diamonds is trapped forever, face down, beneath the king of diamonds, which is sneering at me like Juror Number Five, and my whole life feels like a similar misshuffle.

had reached a new level, and anger and suspicion were my first reactions to the world around me. Burt's

"Don't you find it a little bit (of a) coincidence that the body fell perfectly within the chalk outline on the floor?"|"I think they drew the chalk outline later."|"Ah!"

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

About nine feet six and I weigh twenty stone, he answered, and almost laughed aloud. And how does it end? It ends with words. Words can kill anything. It ends with cold words; words like fire that stick in the structure and take hold and lick it up, blackening and charring it, bringing it down in smoking ruins. It ends in suspicion of things not done, and in the certainty of things done and remembered. It

I saw you high upon a tree—" She broke off, and another single sob hit her like a blow. "The white man, the one you call Henshaw, the Hawk—do not trust him." "He is as my brother, and like a brother I love him." "Then why did he not weep, Bazo, why did he not weep when he looked up at you upon the tree?

If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with moderate assistance only from the lubricating influences of oil of gold, the events which fill these pages might have claimed their share of the public attention in a Court of Justice.

The timid weakness of individuals, the insecurity of groups, and the delusion of superiority generated perpetual fear, suspicion, dislike, and contempt of the different, the alien, and the strange.

I was aware and increasingly suspicious of the separation between the things i felt and the voice that interpreted those feelings. We really are, as people sometimes glibly say, a mystery to ourselves. we really are

Expect poison from the standing water.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend

any man over forty who deliberately combs his hair forward in a child's fringe has something suspect about him

In fact, the flashy, antiauthoritarian vaulters were suspiciously regarded, often with reason, by the coaches and their more loyal athletes as Thoreau-reading, dope-smoking, John Carlos–loving hippies.

Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer.