Quotes About Suspicious

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

My being ineligible makes you all the more eligible. No worries. Happy to help. Also you'll notice this face resembles the drawings on the posters that tell you to report anything you think looks suspicious. Tell the police if you see anyone who looks like me, because my face is of urgent matter to your nation. Not at all. No problem. Glad to be of service.

We have an educated and cynical electorate.

On principle, we should be suspicious of explanations for other people's beliefs and behaviors when those explanations imply they would believe and behave as we do, if only the were as mature and enlightened as we are

Something about the desk bothered me. I sat and touched the keyboard. The monitors didn't respond. They powered up when I turned them on, but the screens showed only a bright blue field. I looked under and around her desk. I found all the necessary system components except for the brain that tied them together. Amy's computer was missing. I said, "Hmm." Detectives said things like this when they were suspicious. I

He said the dead had souls, but when I asked him How that could be - I thought the dead were souls, He broke my trance. Don't that make you suspicious That there's something the dead are keeping back? Yes, there's something the dead are keeping back.

Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

By the way, dressing head to toe in black is not the best camouflage when you're in the snow." "Says the man in the navy-blue suit." "Ah, but all I have to do is remove my hat and my head blends into the background." "So then it looks like there's a navy-blue suit running around on its own, which is way less suspicious.

A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

She'd been cautious to the point of paranoid.

A good thing the taste of that tea made me suspicious. Imagine trying to feed forkroot to someone who knows herbs as well as I do." "Schemes within schemes," Melaine murmured. "The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident.

But I was naturally suspicious; it comes from working too closely with the police for too long. Cynicism is so contagious.

Most people are average, neither black nor white, but grey. A dirty shade of grey. To the best of my ability I tried to write about these people, about their completely average, commonplace dreams and hopes, and about their suspicious tendency towards murder.

The university grounds are really beautiful. Universities always try that bullshit. They want you to think wonderful things are going on inside of them because the grounds are beautiful. In general, it is good to be suspicious of monetary displays. Large swaths of bright green well-watered grass—a thing like that is a huge lie.

Wellington was even harsher, calling Lowe 'a very bad choice; he was a man wanting in education and judgment. He was a stupid man, he knew nothing at all of the world, and like all men who knew nothing of the world, he was suspicious and jealous.

If you do not want an average life, you must be on guard against, and quietly suspicious of, conclusions made by conventional thinking.

At first the baby was so transported with wrath, that it shrieked more loudly than before, but after a while nature asserted itself against imbecility and with one great heave and spasm of fury it suddenly became like the jelly smoother than the creamy curd, its vengeful limbs relaxed, and with long shuddering breaths it began to suck its bottle, both hands clutching the beloved object and an angry suspicious eye roving the nursery against the possible approach of milk-thieves.

The live guy had suspiciously little in his pockets. And what he had was a little suspicious.

They're looking for nervous or furtive behavior.

Children, as might be expected, are highly susceptible to propaganda. They are ignorant of the world and its ways, and therefore completely unsuspecting. Their critical faculties are undeveloped. The youngest of them have not yet reached the age of reason and the older ones lack the experience on which their new-found rationality can effectively work.

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

If police were investigating Murphy's death and hadn't already written it off as 'not suspicious', then they would have to listen to Emir's story. She would call Don and run it past him. So what if it was Saturday morning and he was having the weekend off.

It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on a life. Life as it's lived has a far more complex shape.