Quotes About Suspicion

That cursed ball! All the world thinks I am worth millions. Yet Lourdois had a look that was not natural; there's a snake in the grass somewhere.

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Masters and men do not trust each other; they fear each other, ever thinking that each side is ready to take advantage.

Solomon raised an eyebrow. Or rather, he left it where it was and dropped his body slightly.

She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.

At about 8.15 p.m. Cargill thought he saw something pass through one of the gaps in the boom net defences and rowed across to the centre portion of the nets, near the Western Gate, to investigate. He saw what appeared to be two oxygen bottles floating just below the surface and decided they belonged either to a mine or a submarine.

Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.

We've piled his plate high with shit," Fox conceded. "And not even tied a bib around his neck," Kaye added. "Is your afternoon grilling to be courtesy of a woman called Stoddart?

You double bolted your door against the psychopath with the chainsaw, only to be stabbed in the back by your lover, husband, son or neighbour.

He paused and then showed me how he had been reading my mind all along. 'You reflected that you had my reputation in the hollow of your hand. But why did you exalt at something everyone else also has? Do you not know that every ignoramus on earth can safely defame every single Sufi in the world. He will be believed by every other fearful suspicious, greedy person.

Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

You seem ill at ease, Miss Sullivan. I assure you I'm completely harmless," he said.

We have no witnesses, no proof. But someone evil is moving us around like chess pieces.

Certains ont l'air honnête, mais quand ils te serrent la main, tu as intérêt à recompter tes doigts. Some may look honest, but when you shake their hand, you had better count your fingers.

The foreign ministers were unsettled too by the buzz around the report's insistence on a new diplomatic push that would involve talking to Iran—a kind of regional solution to the Iraq problem. They were rightly suspicious that the Iranians would use their enhanced diplomatic perch that would come with U.S. consultations to further their influence in the region, and the ministers wanted a promise that the United States was not about to sell out to Tehran to end the war in Iraq.

Done Amid fear and suspicion, with startled minds and frightened eyes, we pine and scheme over what steps to take to avoid the certain danger that threatens us so horribly. Yet we are wrong. This was not the danger in store; the portents were false (or we never heard them, or failed to construe them properly). It's some other disaster, precipitous, violent, one we hadn't imagined, that suddenly takes us unawares, and – there's no time now – overcomes us.

Alberta felt her face grow old and shrivelled at her own words. She was a shadow already, half old, distressing, comic. Something happened from year to year, suspicion became knowledge, bad dreams reality. A weariness crept over her, more intense and pervasive than any she had known before. It sat in her back, sapping her strength. She sank down into it as if it were an abyss, sank inwards into gaping emptiness.

All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid. ("New York Blues")

HE HAD SIGNED her own death-warrant. He kept telling himself over and over that he was not to blame, she had brought it on herself. He had never seen the man. He knew there was one. He had known for six weeks now. Little things had told him. One day he came home and there was a cigar-butt in an ashtray, still moist at one end, still warm at the other.

That man, the watchmaker! He's a Gestapo plant

Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.

Does one approach the Scriptures (or any other influential document or collection of documents in the history of world civilization) with a hermeneutics of consent or a hermeneutics of suspicion? Christians have not done well in trying to read literature from other religions empathetically, and atheists and adherents of other world religions today increasingly approach the Bible with preexisting hostility.