Quotes About Suspicion

As the explanation wound on, Eck began to get a whiff of the unmistakable scent of bullshit.

Do you know what we mean by Cold War? —War don't have no temperature.

Black woman hard to laugh, for she must keep it secret and quiet-like for all white man suspicious of negro mirth.

Look at this leper accusing another leper of leprosy.

Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

In fact, what makes Wallace the ultimate demagogue is that, behind his indefatigable scrambling, his ferocious concentration, his inexhaustible ambition, there seems to lurk a secret, desperate suspicion that facing him, aside from and beyond his political existence, is nothingness- an empty, terrible white blank. It's as if, when the time finally arrives for him to cease to be a politician, he will simply cease to be.

In this time, if there is an ominous conspiracy underway in the United States, it would be the silent massive suspicion of a conspiracy which threatens home, job, status, the accustomed order of life.

Tengo un alumno psicoterapeuta. Nunca, nunca, le miro directamente a los ojos. Bajo ningún concepto. Creo que le voy a suspender.

todo es tan garciamarqueciano que sospecho que él no existió...

What was new to our ears these days, and thrilling to hear, was the steadiness and justice of those who spoke, the abscence of panic and exaggeration the quiet insistence on legal processes as opposed to trial by suspicion. McCarthyism so repelled the English that they take special care not to be infected by it.

I was only 97 percent certain this meeting was a trap.

Humans can miss a lot of little clues, but me being able to fire energy weapons from my arms would be something of a red flag.

No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall, for fuck's sake.

It must be hard to respect other people's privacy when you've had to fight and scheme for every minute of your own. Hard not to be paranoid when you remember all the times your paranoia was justified.

If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules.

It did seem unlikely that the dead human had been a GrayCris agent, because somebody had killed him. As far as I knew, I was the only one currently on the station looking for GrayCris agents to kill. I just realized I don't like the phrase "as far as I knew" because it implies how much you actually don't know. I'm not going to stop using it, but. I don't like it as much anymore.

We needed to find out where the refugees were now, if they were either a) murderees or b) murderers.

I just had a bad feeling about the little shit.

I'd tell you to be careful, but…" Kai looked at her through the black film of the veil. "You could say 'be violent' instead." Tahren, who Kai was beginning to suspect had a very dry sense of humor, patted his shoulder and said, Be violent.

Yes, I've had experience with investigating suspicious fatalities in controlled circumstances.

No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall, for fuck's sake.)

be absolved of guilt—not of suspicion. "Which is why I need the murderer

Who was it who once said: 'Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer still'? An astute man whoever he was,

who wryly observed that no one would believe there was a plot against an emperor until he was found dead?