But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in all probability it is a combination of the three factors… — Bernard Rimland Copy Share Image
There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness… — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
A friend is someone you can call in the middle of the night when your man is gone, or you wish he… — Anne Beatts Copy Share Image
There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect… — Kathleen Winsor Copy Share Image
To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
They [the New World Order] want to reduce the population [to 500 million] and their target date is May 5th of 2000.… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
China has been trading technology and systems with Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Pakistan, North Korea now for years and years. Indigenously? No… — James Inhofe Copy Share Image
Satan's time of tempting is usually after an ordinance; and the reason is, because then he thinks he shall find us most… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
And I really suspect that of all the things we think we want to know, the only thing we really want to… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.' — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image