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Quotes About Suspicion

I don't know...just a feeling, like in..." Xander thought for a moment. "Star Wars. You know, when Han Solo says, 'I've got a bad feeling about this'?
~ Robert Liparulo
Can't say that I like this all that much," Toussaint said, his rifle raised now and at the ready. "Feels like a trap to me.
~ Robert Masello
But what I knew then was that nobody-- not even my mother-- was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself on the surface.
~ Robertson Davies
he followed me with his eyes as if I wore a black hood and carried an axe, and he was next in line.
~ Robin McKinley
During the worst of the Voodoo Wars anyone who lived alone with a cat was under suspicion of being a vampire.
~ Robin McKinley
when the dope fiend who lived there finally got busted. At first I'm thinking the dope fiend is back
~ Rodman Philbrick
I was a lonely adolescent, in a lonely country, where the rules were made for the sake of people who did not pay the cost of them. Our daylight world was one of slogans in which no one believed, of vague prohibitions and joyless celebrations of our benign enslavement. It was a world without friendship, in which every gathering was an object of suspicion, and in which people spoke in whispers for fear that even the most innocent remark could accuse the speaker of a crime.
~ Roger Scruton
Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.
~ Roger Zelazny
Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot du Lac to the Keep of Ganelon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.
~ Roger Zelazny
I still thought you might be behind the whole thing. You or Brand. I had it narrowed down that far. I thought it might even be the two of you together-especially with him struggling to bring you back.
~ Roger Zelazny
Simple curiosity, more than suspicion even, required that I search these faces for reactions, clues, indications-the faces that I knew better than any others, to the limits of my understanding such things. And of course they told me nothing.
~ Roger Zelazny
Both Hamilton and Jefferson believed in democracy, but Hamilton tended to be more suspicious of the governed and Jefferson of the governors.
~ Ron Chernow
It is almost inconceivable that he did not suspect at moments that Archbold had learned some of his tricks from Senior.
~ Ron Chernow
By the spring of 1891, Rockefeller began to develop the queasy sense that Harper regarded his money as a blank check to cover annual deficits.
~ Ron Chernow
Having never dealt with Frank, Slaght naively trusted him.
~ Ron Chernow
Rockefeller was similarly suspicious of any boasting or ostentation among associates.
~ Ron Chernow
Mr. Adams is vain, suspicious, and stubborn, of an excessive self-regard, taking counsel with nobody."9 Jefferson predicted to Létombe that Adams would last only one term and urged the French to invade England.
~ Ron Chernow
a person so often accused cannot be entirely innocent
~ Ron Chernow
Grant proved remarkably fair-minded, declaring that "should there be any grounds of suspicion of fraudulent counting on either side it should be reported and denounced at once . . . Either party can afford to be disappointed in the result but the Country cannot afford to have the result tainted by the suspicion of illegal or false returns.
~ Ron Chernow
I'd always been suspicious of unrelenting sunniness, what it must be working so hard to conceal.
~ Leah Stewart
But we're all still KGB really. Old wine, new bottles.
~ Lee Child
She has a caller ID system," Reacher said. "With coordinates. She's probably watching this house right now, on Google Earth." "But it's dark." "Don't ask me how it works." He
~ Lee Child
Era posible que estuviera reaccionando como reaccionan muchas víctimas de secuestros: con cierta desconfianza hacia quienes no han compartido su experiencia.
~ Lee Child
Maybe he thinks you're an agent of deep state oppression. We're dealing with an old guy with a ponytail here.
~ Lee Child