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They profess to aim only at a reform of the constitution and of certain abuses in the public administration, but an abolition of debts public and private and a new division of property are strongly suspected in contemplation.
~ Ron Chernow
Ulf's life, normally so settled and so ordered, had now become markedly more complicated. What had been the Bim Sundström case had now become the Signe Magnusson investigation, and had, in the process, transformed itself from a case of the suspected non-disappearance of a non-existent person to one involving the actual disappearance of a real person.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Ulf's life, normally so settled and so ordered, had now become markedly more complicated. What had been the Bim Sundström case had now become the Signe Magnusson investigation, and had, in the process, transformed itself from a case of the suspected non-disappearance of a non-existent person to one involving the actual disappearance of a real person. He
~ Alexander McCall Smith
According to the police, of course, our community was a rogue community. It was we who were the enemy, we who were the terrorists, the civilian terrorists, the associates of terrorists or simply individuals suspected of being but not yet discovered to be terrorists. That being the case, and understood by both parties to be the case, the only time you'd call the police in my area would be if you were going to shoot them, and naturally they would know this and so wouldn't come.
~ Anna Burns
The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
~ Buffalo Bill
I'm prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.
~ Kamala Harris
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
~ Richard Perle
Europe is like a besieged town. Fever is raging. Whoever will not rave like the rest is suspected. And in these hurried times when justice cannot wait to study evidence, every suspect is a traitor.
~ Romain Rolland
You're clear, Mr. Duke." Grins from both of them. What could Felix possibly be suspected of smuggling, a harmless old thespian like him? It's the words that should concern you, he thinks at them. That's the real danger. Words don't show up on scanners.
~ Margaret Atwood
Thanks to the Internet, people we might have only suspected of being idiots can now give us ample evidence.
~ Andy Borowitz
). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.
~ Frank Gaffney
Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
~ Bob Woodward
I only knew a woman I suspected was haunted by devils. What those were, I was never told." She sighed. "I think that's why I went to her wake. To apologize for not pushing harder.
~ Archer Mayor
Once upon a time there lived an old woman, called Janet Gellatley, who was suspected to be a witch, on the infallible grounds that she was very old, very ugly, very poor, and had two sons, one of whom was a poet, and the other a fool, which visitation, all the neighbourhood agreed, had come upon her for the sin of witchcraft.
~ Sir Walter Scott
My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.
~ Stephen Fry
We only found out about that via the BBC. And because we knew the power of propaganda, we also knew what was suspected of the BBC, that it also understood its craft and must have made a lot of smears. One believed it only in part. There were horrible things reported there, things one could not believe, for example, the mass shootings in the Ukraine, where German soldiers were involved. When we heard that, we didn't believe it,
~ Eric A. Johnson
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
~ beecher henry ward xiii
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Well do I remember the first night we met, how you questioned my opinion that first impressions are perfect. You were right to do so, of course, but even then I suspected what I've come to believe most passionately these past weeks: from that first moment, I knew you were a dangerous woman, and I was in great peril of falling in love." She thought she should say something witty here. She said, "Really?
~ Shannon Hale
She looked her usual calm, dignified self—but he had learned last night, if he had not suspected it before, that she had had long practice donning this particular mask.
~ Mary Balogh
At moments like this he suspected that Hitler had been nothing but a harried bureaucrat and Satan himself a mental defective with a rudimentary sense of humor—the kind that finds feeding firecrackers wrapped in bread to seagulls unutterably funny.
~ Stephen King
Since childhood I'd been suspected of imagination
~ Steve Aylett
She pushed the revelation about Dr. Kruger into a side pocket of her mind, to be examined more thoroughly another time. Who would ever have suspected that he was shy? That any grownups were, for that matter, and especially a person as important as a doctor?
~ Beverly Butler
Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots," Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today.
~ Julia Quinn