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Quotes About Suspicion

They were Amy and Dan Cahill's parents, people who had died in an accidental fire years ago. Or maybe not so accidental.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Nightlord wasn't attempting to illicit information from Palin.
~ Margaret Weis
Outre qu'il est fatigant d'écouter debout dans la foule un long morceau d'éloquence, entendre tonner contre les ennemis du régime n'est pas un pur plaisir quand on tient soi-même de plus près qu'on ne voudrait aux suspects et aux condamnés.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
For all I know, the guy is Dracula.
~ Mari Mancusi
I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal I'm thinking about doing something illegal.
~ Marilyn Manson
Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst.
~ Mario Puzo
Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close... that, supposedly, I won't suspect. Hagen: Somebody like me. Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you. Hagen: I'm German-American. Michael: To them that's Irish.
~ Mario Puzo
But della Rovere frowned and said, Heed my warning, Guido Feltra. He's full of the devil, this son of the church.
~ Mario Puzo
Michael grinned. "Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst.
~ Mario Puzo
En las casi 4 semanas que pasó allá, negociando el alquiler del Henry Reed, obtuvo muchas informaciones, pero, siempre, con la sensación de que nadie llegaba al fondo de las cosas, que incluso las gentes mejor intencionadas le ocultaban algo y se lo ocultaban a sí mismos, temerosos de enfrentar una verdad terrible y acusadora
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Zou ze me, als haar man op reis was, een keer willen toestaan naar Newmarket te komen en een blik in haar huis te werpen? Nee, nooit.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
It's got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no .
~ Marisha Pessl
So they turned around and retraced their trip as morning dawned, eventually reentering the southern gate at Phu Bai. At about 8:30, more than four hours since they had been awakened to board the trucks and go south, they came barreling straight through the base and exited the north gate—confirming suspicion inside the trucks that no one in charge had a clue.
~ Mark Bowden
I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.
~ Mark Haddon
Ketchup became a tomato sauce, originally called "tomato ketchup" in America, which is appropriate since the tomato is an American plant, brought to Europe by Hernán Cortés, embraced in the Mediterranean, and regarded with great suspicion in the North. The
~ Mark Kurlansky
I also think my mom 'suffers' from something one might call Pollyanna's paranoia, an irrational suspicion that there are people out there secretly trying to do good things to you, that there are all sorts of hidden perks lurking everywhere, almost like the Easter eggs in video games...that it's possible that Raoul's might be running some sort of unpublicized hemangioblastoma-all-the-caviar-you-can-eat promotion.
~ Mark Leyner
I went to Ithaca in 1903 when one person in ten was sick, and one person in a hundred was dying from the disease. You have no idea of the state of mind I found the people in. They didn't know what to do; didn't know where to go; didn't know whom to suspect and whom to trust  . .
~ Anthony Bourdain
There was no trust anywhere in the world, O my brothers, the way I could see it.
~ Anthony Burgess
A firm belief that things were more likely than not to go wrong was another characteristic of Sir Gavin's approach to life, induced no doubt by his own regrets. Indeed, he could not be entirely absolved from suspicion of rather enjoying the worst when it happened: at times almost of engineering disaster of a purely social kind.
~ Anthony Powell
The passages seemed catacombs of a hell assigned to the subdued regret of those who had lacked in life the income to which they felt themselves entitled; this suspicion that the two houses were an abode of the dead being increased by the fact that no one was ever to be seen about, even at the reception desk.
~ Anthony Powell
But he is too proud to watch. If you and I were hatching treason against him in the dark, and chance had brought him there, he would stop his ears with his fingers. He is all trust, even when he knows that he is being deceived
~ Anthony Trollope
There are men who rarely think well of women, — who hardly think well of any woman. They put their mothers and sisters into the background, — as though they belonged to some sex or race apart, — and then declare to themselves and to their friends that all women are false, — that no woman can be trusted unless her ugliness protect her;
~ Anthony Trollope
A woman who is alone in the world is ever regarded with suspicion.
~ Anthony Trollope
But if a man never mentions his belongings among those with whom he lives, he becomes mysterious, and almost open to suspicion. It begins to be known that nobody knows anything of such a man, and even friends become afraid. It is certainly convenient to be able to allude, if it be but once in a year, to some blood relation.
~ Anthony Trollope