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Quotes About Wariness

African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.
~ Cynthia McKinney
When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.
~ Frank James
The delegates did provide that the president had to be a natural-born citizen, "or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution," suggesting that there has always been a wariness of foreign influence and of the foreign-born.)
~ Jon Meacham
Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.
~ Diego Maradona
Better a thousand times careful than once dead.
~ Proverb
Never trust the woman
~ Proverb
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
~ Publilius Syrus
Those in technology who can afford to stay in Silicon Valley all know it as one of the most beautiful places to live in the world, but a wariness has sunk in as folks from other walks of life are forced to leave: coffee shops are wall-to-wall with aspiring entrepreneurs, and restaurants buzz with talk of valuations and venture capital.
~ Glenn Kelman
When something bad happens, you're bound to be doubly careful.
~ Nikita Thukral
What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?
~ Stanley Kubrick
They say certain people aren't good soldiers because if they're in a foxhole all night—you know, if you're creative and smart, you're thinking about all the different ways someone is going to blow your head off. But if you're not that smart, you're just like chilling out. And I feel like that in life. I'm just in the foxhole all fucking day thinking about everything that's going to go wrong in every possible way.
~ Judd Apatow
Tokens of affection ease the wariness of time.
~ Wes Fessler
But I always find it prudent to suspect everybody just a little. What I say is, you really never know, do you?
~ Agatha Christie
I'm very wary of trust, you see.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas
I was raised to be very wary of the police. I was raised to stay away from them unless you absolutely have to. Because they're dangerous.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Every time I pass a cafe, I imagine it being stormed by men with Kalashnikovs.
~ Pamela Druckerman
The thin man had a tight voice that expected to be lied to. (The King in Yellow)
~ Raymond Chandler
Illidan glared at the Broken and his pathetic allies. "You are not prepared." A
~ William King
There's a saying, " Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
~ E.M. Forster
In Haiti, it - people seemed - in my experience in Haiti, people are so open to photographs and journalism. And there doesn't seem to be the same sort of restrictions or wariness about the press that you would experience in Washington, for instance, on many levels.
~ Carol Guzy
I am very suspicious of people.
~ Mika
I'm so suspicious of boys-slash-men. I just don't like them or trust them.
~ Megan Fox
Are you sure about that? Corey muttered once the were gone. Chloe is nice enough, but that Derek? Real charmer. If anyone busts through that door, he's liable to throw us to them as cannon fodder. I wasn't sure I disagreed.
~ Kelley Armstrong