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Quotes About Suspected

Suspected and Denounced enemy of the Republic, Aristocrat, one of a family of tyrants, one of a race proscribed, for that they had used their abolished privileges to the infamous oppression of the people. Charles Evremonde, called Darnay, in right of such proscription, absolutely Dead in Law.
~ Charles Dickens
The mathematics applied to fluid systems and to electrical systems. But almost no one in the classical era suspected the chaos that could lurk in dynamical systems if nonlinearity was given its due.
~ James Gleick
If a country is suspected of going nuclear, you need to understand why. Why does it feel insecure?
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.
~ Chaz Bono
The physician nodded as if that had told him something, although Don suspected it was just a thing done mechanically. You hear enough stuff you don't understand, maybe you just start nodding. Oh, sure, I got you. Makes perfect sense.
~ Chet Williamson
Besides, this meant she was going to need wooing after all. He was delighted. Penn was a student of narrative and knew that lovers should be wooed, relationships fought for, that anything too easily won was soon lost or else not worth winning. He suspected she was worth winning
~ Laurie Frankel
You should have distinguished,' replied Anne. 'You should not have suspected me now; the case so different, and my age so different. If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here.
~ Jane Austen
Actually, she often wondered whether cleanliness drove love away. Fastidious, she suspected that life itself was to be found in dirt and disorder, in unknown dark substances that she was hesitant to touch.
~ Jane Smiley
The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer has seen something unusual in the sky that he interprets as probable evidence of alien presence.
~ Seth Shostak
Miranda found sunflowers very ugly, and yellow made her so nervous that she suspected it was the cause of war.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.
~ Gore Vidal
There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.
~ Vasily Grossman
If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.
~ Balthus
For some time past she had been suspected of being au fond, in spite of appearances, an "original." In the provinces it was not permissible to be original: being original means having ideas that are not understood by others; the provinces demand equality of mind as well as equality of manners and customs.
~ Honore de Balzac
He was Archie Grant, boon companion, should-be pirate, and suspected second-story man who could melt a girl with his smile but then would have no idea where the puddle at his feet had come from.
~ Connie Brockway
never hesitated. I mean, I always suspected I was a bit of a psychopath, but as we all know...psychopaths aren't necessarily monsters. They're just...unemotional. Detached. Able to become such great surgeons, CEOs, lawyers...even profilers for the FBI...
~ Unknown
I suspected that the more time I spent with my mouth full of food, the less time I would have to screw up at this stupid party.
~ Jim Butcher
Now that the book is finished, I know that this was not a hallucination, a sort of professional malady, but the confirmation of something I already suspected—folktales are real.
~ Italo Calvino
How could I embrace decently and with the full ardor of my body and mind someone I suspected of murder? Was I embracing despair, was this an obscene passion, had I at that wedding so many years ago seen not beauty at all, but cruelty in her large eyes?
~ John Cheever
Drugs were suspected, though the article, in the manner of the Gazzettino, didn't bother to specify what they were suspected of.
~ Donna Leon
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
~ John Locke
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
~ John Locke
At one time or another most of us at the Creek have been suspected of a degree of madness. Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity ...
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The other aspect of NATO summits he found irritating was that they were group meetings. He was almost invariably enthusiastic about one-on-one world leader meetings—no matter the subject, no matter the leader—and agitated about collective gatherings. He worried about being ganged up on; he suspected that plots had been laid to trick him.
~ Michael Wolff