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Quotes About Suspicion

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.
~ John Galsworthy
Toxic words corrupt and defile the mind. There are words of suspicion, words of bitterness, and words of death.
~ John Hagee
sympathetic. "Look, Clyde. We never found Alyssa. And the way this case has unfolded . . . people are asking questions." "About what?
~ John Hart
The essence of dietrologia is that it dismisses the notion that anyone could act purely for reasons of moral conviction.
~ John Hooper
En la vida real era muy distinto. Todo el mundo es sospechoso. Todo el mundo está absorto.
~ John Katzenbach
Ya no oigo mis voces, de modo que ando un poco perdido. Sospecho que sabrían contar mucho mejor esta historia.
~ John Katzenbach
lo que había deseado. Con una última mirada calle arriba y abajo, salió del coche murmurando para sí que estaba paranoica y que era una imbécil y que no tenía nada que temer. De todos modos, abrió el buzón con cuidado como si temiera encontrar una serpiente venenosa enrollada en el interior. Lo primero que vio fue el sobre blanco encima de un catálogo a todo
~ John Katzenbach
Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.
~ John Katzenbach
Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?
~ John Kennedy Toole
harmonoia n. an itchy sense of dread when life feels just a hint too peaceful—when everyone seems to get along suspiciously well, with an eerie stillness that makes you want to brace for the inevitable collapse, or burn it down yourself. From harmony + paranoia. Pronounced "hahr
~ John Koenig
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
~ John Lahr
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.
~ John le Carre
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
~ John le Carre
I don't want them hanging a double murder on me. It wouldn't look good on my school record.
~ John Marsden
Somehow when you see a politician kiss a baby, shake a hand -- kiss anything -- it is tainted.
~ Elise Valmorbida
As any parent can tell you, it's better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are being unreasonably quiet. They're probably doing something they don't want you to see, and if they hear you coming, they'll hide the evidence. I
~ Elizabeth Bear
He felt eyes on him. He didn't turn to see if they were Jane's.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She hadn't trusted anyone, not since Patience. Not since Moon Morrow's confidential secretary had turned out to be not so confidential after all.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I wondered if it had eaten a suspect. If I had, I hoped the suspect deserved it. It seemed like a good cop, as such things went, and I'd hate to think less of it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Garrett didn't miss the jeweled-serpent glitter in the man's eyes.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She glanced over her shoulder, pinning the hapless patrolman on a needle-pointed gaze, wondering which of her notories occupied his attention.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Coincidence was possible. But what was much more likely was enemy action.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He thought of Muire quoting poetry in the darkness, his own flip dismissal of the religion behind it, her pursuit of the Grey Wolf. He thought of the sword in her hand, and shook his head and snorted through his nose. Ridiculous. Ridiculous to imagine. The more ridiculous because he suspected he was right.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Alienor raised her eyebrows. "I can see straight through your ruse," she said. "Even if it is not plain on your face, Aimery de Niort is giving the game away." She glanced toward the young knight who was holding his own horse at the ready, his expression expectant and smug.
~ Elizabeth Chadwick