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Quotes About Suspect

How many wicked intentions climb aboard a pure and innocent phrase, after it is already on its way! It is enough to make one suspect that lying is, many a time, as involuntary as breathing.
~ Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Pauline let out a loud groan. "Everybody thinks everybody is the killer. The lady at the 7-Eleven says it's that guy Sam from the Gill Creek Maritime Museum, because he has sinister eyebrows. I think it's Liam." Liam stared into the fire. "I did it with s'more sticks.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
~ Anne Sullivan
which contemporary ecclesiastics were in good favor, which in bad, what recent theological hypothesis was suspect, and how this or that Jesuit or Dominican had skated on thin ice or sailed near the wind in his Lenten discourses; he had everything except the Faith
~ Evelyn Waugh
I can't think whether I've actually interviewed the widow of a crime suspect. Obviously, I've interviewed members of the families of people who've been accused of things.
~ Fiona Barton
Much of what we regard as truth in the war on terror is actually rather suspect.
~ Amitava Kumar
Dragons at a distance are amazing and noble creatures of legend. My closer experience of them makes me suspect they'd burp nobly after consuming me.
~ Robin Hobb
If you want to find a culprit, first you find those who might gain a benefit from committed act.
~ Alexandre Dumas
if you wish to find the guilty party, first discover whose interests the crime serves!
~ Alexandre Dumas
Gilbert... sat at the foot of the bed and wore the dazed, beleaguered look of a suspect hauled in for questioning on a day when the good cop has phoned in sick.
~ Joe Keenan
Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.
~ Robert Adams
Quién había concebido el plan de asesinarme?, ¿quién había tejido la red en la que debatía como animalillo silvestre?, ¿de quién sería la mano que habría de inmolarme? ¿De la propia Mercedes Negrer?, ¿del rijoso expendedor de Pepsi-Cola?, ¿de los negros superdotados?, ¿de los ordeñadores de la lactaria?
~ Eduardo Mendoza
Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content.
~ Francine Prose
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
~ Frank Herbert
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
~ Vaclav Havel
Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.
~ Machado de Assis
We were able to establish guilt," Giobbi said, "by closely observing the suspect's psychological and behavioral reaction during the interrogation. We don't need to rely on other kinds of investigation.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
men do not suspect faults which they do not commit
~ Samuel Johnson
I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for.
~ Catherine Crier
In a time when traditional religious teachings have become suspect, we tend to trust that which can be known in our own experience. This turn to experience is seen in the remarkable resurgence of interest in spirituality within mainline churches and beyond. Spirituality is the experiential dimension of religion.
~ Marcus J. Borg
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
~ Isaac Asimov
The few detectives working the cases complained of the same things the "Ted" Task Force had hated: sitting in a stuffy, cramped office; sorting through mountains of paper, tips, and notes; trying to find the common denominators that might lead them to a suspect they could interrogate.
~ Ann Rule
I couldn't guarantee that someone could get off their medication. But I suspect that meditation instead of Ritalin would change the life of any kid with ADD.
~ Russell Simmons
There are plenty of designers around who could advise you on artwork. I'm not the person you want." "Oh, I suspect you are exactly the person I'm looking for.
~ B.J. Daniels