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Quotes About Suspicion

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.
~ John Hurt
I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.
~ Jean-Marie Le Pen
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not stymie international clarity and consensus about the endgame in terms of borders and other issues.
~ David Miliband
I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.
~ Ryan Adams
I am very suspicious of people.
~ Mika
I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.
~ Zadie Smith
I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do it, I always think, 'Why are you telling me how successful you are?' I am always suspicious of those kinds of boasts.
~ Simon Cowell
I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.
~ Robbie Williams
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country.
~ Robert Duvall
I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
~ Manuel Puig
I couldn't date someone who didn't like dogs. There are exceptions to the rule, but I find that if someone doesn't like animals, I am a little suspicious of them.
~ Penn Badgley
I'm so suspicious of boys-slash-men. I just don't like them or trust them.
~ Megan Fox
Centenarians tend to be assertive, suspicious, and practical.
~ David Shields
I wonder how many illegal migrants fanned out across the country while I and others were subjected to the stone-faced, suspicious inefficiency of the Border Force?
~ Peter Hitchens
Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
~ Hanna Rosin
I'm always suspicious when a guy takes his date on a walk, because it reeks of poverty and an inability to plan.
~ Julie Klausner
Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.
~ Marlon James
I think the biggest challenge we faced in making 'The September Issue' was the fact that people in the fashion world are very suspicious of cameras. They're used to a camera being the enemy, something that is prying and looking to catch you in a compromising position, something that's judging you.
~ R. J. Cutler
In the post-war United States, you had this race to the suburbs. Cities shrank, the suburbs got bigger - and the notion of community changed drastically. You went from all being very close together to all being spaced apart and slightly suspicious of one another.
~ Joe Gebbia
It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.
~ Andrew Neil
In Raja Chanda's 'Ley Halua Ley,' I essay Locket's miser husband, who is suspicious of his beautiful wife. He is ready to go to any extent to protect his wife. The script of this film is hilarious.
~ Kharaj Mukherjee