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Quotes About Suspicious

What this investigation reveals is that Pearly Poll, a minor and rather whimsical character in the modern re-telling of the Ripper story, might actually be the single most suspicious individual to emerge throughout the entire series of Whitechapel murders
~ Tom Wescott
The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.
~ George R.R. Martin
Cakes of rice are not a snack. I suspect them of evil deeds for this alone.
~ J.D. Robb
A cop did better cynical and suspicious.
~ J.D. Robb
Try and understand your parents, Karl. You owe us at least that much. I know you're angry. You feel wounded. You think that Helge and I were obsessed with the Idea, that it finally imploded, and this has made you suspicious of all ideas. And yet you know full well that our Idea was not the DDR. You can make many criticisms of Marx, but to hold him responsible for our so-called socialist experiences is unfair.
~ Tariq Ali
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
~ Keith Richards
His cousin would be immediately suspicious she was an assassin come to kill him. He wouldn't have minded so much. His cat was content, and at that moment so was he. It would have been a good moment to go out.
~ Christine Feehan
Be ... suspicious ... of all those who employ the term 'we' or 'us' without your permission. This is [a] form of surreptitious conscription ... Always ask who this 'we' is; as often as not it's an attempt to smuggle tribalism through the customs.
~ Christopher Hitchens
If, in monotheism, God is man, man is God. Why does God look suspiciously like the ruling class? Why is Jesus, a Jewish guy from the Middle East, blond and blue-eyed? There
~ Gloria Steinem
An' right here I want to remark,' Bill went on, 'that that animal's familiarity with camp-fires is suspicious an' immoral.' 'It knows for certain more'n a self-respectin' wolf ought to know,' Henry agreed
~ Jack London
También me parece sospechoso su estúpido comportamiento. No hacen más que reírse disimuladamente y darse palmadas en la espalda, diciendo cosas como tremendo y lo máximo, el tipo de expresiones que usaría un psicólogo de colegio para simular que nos entiende.
~ James Patterson
The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.
~ J. G. Ballard
I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!
~ Slavoj Zizek
I'm as deeply suspicious of big government as anyone. I'm strongly in favor of universal coverage but not single payer.
~ Dean Ornish
Women are suspicious. Men are devious. Infinite loop.
~ Saleem Sharma
Where's the rule that says you can't just unilaterally declare yourself a spy and snoop around for no reason? That's the whole key to life: Fuck explaining yourself to people. Plus Miami is the perfect place, absolutely crawling with self-employed, freelance agents in dummy corporations ready to join any government that can't have direct involvement with an illicit operation. I'll just act suspicious until the highest bidder comes along.
~ Tim Dorsey
I'm suspicious of any plan to fix unfairness that starts with 'step one, dismantle the entire system and replace it with a better one,' especially if you can't do anything else until step one is done.
~ Cory Doctorow
I'm suspicious of any plan to fix unfairness that starts with 'step one, dismantle the entire system and replace it with a better one,' especially if you can't do anything else until step one is done. Of all the ways that people kid themselves into doing nothing, that one is the most self-serving.
~ Cory Doctorow
But patriotism, as it is the fairest, so it is often the most suspicious mask of other feelings;
~ Walter Scott
We are suspicious of those CEOs who regularly claim they do know the future—and we become downright incredulous if they consistently reach their declared targets. Managers that always promise to "make the numbers" will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.
~ Warren Buffett
I insist on remaining aloof, self-absorbed, lovingly nursing my suspicions.
~ Charles Simic
All this, in the midst of a city already plagued by the Ku Klux Klan—a group more sinister and suspicious than most people have any idea, and their public face is troublesome enough without any secret agenda hiding beneath their ridiculous robes. I tell you, they're stranger than the Freemasons and not half as well thought out, but they're radical, blind believers of awful things.
~ Cherie Priest
You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or take notes on a series of events you may have observed that are suspicious, unfortunate, or very dull. Keep your commonplace book in a safe place, such as underneath your bed, or at a nearby dairy.
~ Lemony Snicket
I saw a woman wearing suspicious lettuce!
~ Lemony Snicket