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Quotes About Suspicion

Danger sometimes comes from a source that is least suspected.
~ Aesop
When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe that someone or something is out to hurt us
~ Alain de Botton
Proust's suspicion of doctors... in an awkward position...for they are people who profess to understand the workings of the body, even though their knowledge has not primarily emerged from any pain in their own body.
~ Alain de Botton
A man has been arrested in Epsom for signalling to German planes with a lighted cigarette
~ Alan Bennett
I got a bad feeling about this." —
~ Alan Dean Foster
Eying him, Finn felt he knew the type if not the man. His only fear then was that the man might shoot first and ask questions later. Thankfully, he did not.
~ Alan Dean Foster
She finds herself suspicious of religious zeal that has a business plan.
~ Alan Moore
A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass–-and if looks were acid baths the two she collects from us would reduce her to gristle quicker than Mrs. Durand-Deacon.
~ Derek Raymond
Soze shook his head. "If someone checks our Internet search records, don't you think it will look suspicious that before we called the police, we checked up on the evidence?" Poe laughed mirthlessly. "We're Rose & Grave, junior. Everything we do looks suspicious.
~ Diana Peterfreund
It was hard for them to accuse their wives of infidelity when their rival was an invisible man.
~ Diane Wakoski
People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.
~ Dick Francis
I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.
~ Dominic West
Beware the hospitality of the sociopath.
~ Don Winslow
So you got Black Lives Matter up your ass, every citizen a journalist with a cell-phone camera at the ready, and you go to work each day with the whole world thinking you're a murdering racist. Okay
~ Don Winslow
They shouldn't look out the window when they hear shit," Ron Minelli says. "But that was probably her whole life. She probably spent her whole day looking out the window.
~ Don Winslow
See the moon? It hates us.
~ Donald Barthelme
I believe in doubt. I believe in keeping clear of believers.
~ Donald Hays
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
~ Eric Hoffer
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
~ Unknown
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
~ Smedley Butler
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
~ Chrissie Hynde
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
~ Alan Dershowitz
One of the benefits of looking innocent is you're able to get away with things. People almost never suspect you.
~ Jennifer Niven
My reasoning for going to the spirits, rather than calling them to us is not grounded in anything but my darker self, my suspicious nature and my mistrust of the behavior of other human beings. This culture has no training or grounding in how to respectfully treat the spirits that come. Forgive this harshness, but I have seen a great, disrespectful stupidity in many pagan communities, including our own.
~ Jenny Blain