Quotes About Suspicious

The best businesses are the ones that are the most paranoid.

Look for small companies that are already profitable and have proven that their concept can be replicated. • Be suspicious of companies with growth rates of 50 to 100 percent a year.

This is bizarre," Dan said. "I find it really strange—the way you're approaching this. You must be one of the very few people who have chosen to come on Twitter and use their own name as their Twitter name. Who does that? And that's why I'm a little suspicious of your motives, Jon. That's why I say I think you're using it as brand management.

The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public

Yossarian - the very sight of the name made Colonel Cathcart shudder. There were so many esses in it. It just had to be subversive. It was like the word subversive itself. It was like seditious and insidious too, and like socialist, suspicious, fascist and Communist. It was an odious, alien, distasteful name, a name that just did not inspire confidence.

When you feel strained, you are more likely to be vigilant and suspicious, invest more effort in what you are doing, feel less comfortable, and make fewer errors, but you also are less intuitive and less creative than usual.

Mila was right. This case was fishy. In fact, it smelled like Sea World.

It was a state which might have seemed a suspiciously narcotic one except that it differed so little from his customary manner.

I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary.

I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.

That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.

Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him.

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

I am highly suspicious of food which takes a long time to be imported.

Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try to pitch it to a group of non-readers, and they quickly become suspicious.

I don't really buy the death-drive thing too literally; it feels overly neat and convenient. But I am suspicious of fighting back being the dominant model for cinematic conflict and personal conflict and political conflict.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

McCain likes strong defense, and he's viscerally suspicious of big companies. So he's more a Square Deal guy than a New Deal guy.

I am not against it. But I am suspicious of all forms of New Age spirituality, and religion in general.