Quotes About Suspicious

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.

Comey has left a trail of suspicious activities in his wake.

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

People process and express shock and grief in different ways. Unusual behavior or a lack of obvious emotion should not be considered suspicious.

During the day she notices mostly his arms in the short-sleeved army shirt and the rifle which is always with him, even though battles seem now to be over for them. He has various postures with the gun—half-staff, half a crook for his elbows when it is over his shoulders. He will turn, suddenly realizing she is watching him. He is a survivor of his fears, will step around anything suspicious, acknowledging her look in this panorama as if claiming he can deal with it all.

Always be suspicious or of course: of course is not a reason.

I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

Even if Zen is not currently undergoing the same kind of core doctrinal crisis as Christianity is for some, we should pay attention to suspicious critiques as well as to sympathetic interpretations of the Zen tradition.

Discipline 'makes' individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise. It is not a triumphant power...it is a modest, suspicious power, which functions as a calculated, but permanent economy.

A burning church full of dead men in black gowns. Another one, in red, lying dead outside. And you, kneeling next to a woman who's been tied up with duct tape. I admit that looks fairly suspicious at first glance, I said.

There seems to be some sort of sadness in you. I find that attractive. I'm suspicious of people who go around thinking life's a barrel of laughs the whole time. People who are always happy bore me. We're not supposed to be happy all the time, because then the world would stop.

In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe Few found the similarity suspicious.

They were short and squat and had too many limbs, and he had no idea what either of them were. But they looked suspicious.

There are twenty-two stalls in the Barn. Eleven of the stabled horses are, as far as Rutherford can ascertain, former presidents of the United States of America. The other stalls are occupied by regular horses, who give the presidents suspicious, sidelong looks.

The rising began at Melilla, the easternmost city of Spanish Morocco. In the night of 16–17 July, General Romerales, the local commander, looked for suspicious activity.

Make no assumptions. About anything. Ever. Stay mindful, my friend, and suspicious. Suspicious, but not frightened by complexity.

The castellan is bundled like a corpse and you don't find that somewhat unusual?' 'Could be afraid of the sun or something. No reason to be suspicious. You never met any strange people in your day, Tor?' And Torvald Nom glanced across at Scorch, and found he had no reply to that at all.

Ms. Rogers sighed softly. Just keep a weather eye, she said. Grant looked out the window. But it's a bright sunny day. Papa laughed. She means keep our eyes open for anything or anyone unusual or suspicious, he explained.

Don't mess this up. "So, uh, I would hate if you reached into my pocket." There was a suspended beat of silence. Then a dry, "I don't think so." "I don't have a present for you." Interest lit her dark eyes, but she remained still. Even suspicious. "The present wouldn't happen to be a hard cock, would it? Because if it is, I would have to return it. Minus a few inches." His

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

What about that old coot?" Janet looked suspicious. Mr. Jeffreys was from the world of officialdom she despised.

I spend the rest of the night on my mattress obsessively making knots, holding them up for Buttercup's inspection. If one looks suspicious, he swipes it out of the air and bites it a few times to make sure it's dead.

Now suspicious, Wills called the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police. The nearest uniformed officers responded to the police dispatcher that they were busy putting gas in their squad car (although they were, in fact, drinking at a nearby bar),

large disparities in school performances among racial or ethnic groups (1) are unusual and suspicious, and (2) reflect differences in the way those groups are treated by the schools and/or the society. These