Quotes About Suspicion

Le parole dell'iniquo che è forte penetrano e sfuggono. Egli può adirarsi che tu mostri sospetto di lui, e nello stesso tempo farti sentire che quello di che tu sospetti è certo: può insultare e chiamarsi offeso, schernire e domandar ragione, atterrire e lagnarsi, essere sfacciato e irreprensibile.

People were supposed to cry at weddings; they just weren't supposed to cry because they suspected that the bride was going to die.

Be careful, okay, when you go there. Talia was really scared of this Malvolia chick. She could be dangerous." "What's she going to have—an assault weapon?" "Worse," I say. "She's got magical powers.

For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

A man with a bad character is liable to be blamed for any misdeed which may be done; while a person who is not open to suspicion may commit depredation without challenge.

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

The Secret Service once watched for people who fit the popular profile of dangerousness: the lunatic, the loner, the threatener, the hater.

When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

In the Soviet Union, you always have the feeling someone is watching you.

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

I used to think the store detective had followed me all the way home and would knock on the door and go, 'Hello, is this your daughter? She's got three blue lipsticks and a moisturiser from Boots in her bag.' We just used to nick crap. Not even stuff we wanted.

Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.

I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.

'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

Only the paranoid survive.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

You used to think the suspect was the guy with the cornrows; now you see the police officers with the cornrows.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.