Suspicion Quotes · Page 9

I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

— Jean Racine

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

— Franklin P. Adams

There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Today in Germany, everyone is being watched--even the watchers.

— Abraham Polonsky

“Louis could never shake the suspicion that some people, whether consciously or not, called the storm to themselves.”

— Paul Russell

There are two reason why we don't trust people. First, we don't know them. Second, because we know them.

— Anonymous

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being…

— Kin Hubbard

“If one does not know how to read the account (karmic) book, then he will start to have doubts, and doubts lead…

— Dada Bhagwan

The rating [of "Aquarius"] was eventually brought down to 16 after the third appeal. Everything blew up after the second appeal because…

— Sonia Braga

Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is…

— Preston Manning

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Something very unique about Germany is that once you are suspected or accused of having worked for the Stassi, it doesn't matter…

— Christian Schwochow

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

— Seneca the Younger

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that…

— John B. S. Haldane

What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest…

— Franz Kafka

Speaking as somebody who voted against TPA and has a lot of suspicions about Trans Pacific Partnership that are reflected in our…

— Cory Booker

Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how…

— Edward Thomson

You English are like mad bulls... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such…

— Wilhelm II

If you're a status quo writer, you're considered to not be political but that's as political as if you're a progressive writer.…

— Junot Diaz

[About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a…

— Dalai Lama

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've this creeping, suspicion that things here are not as they seem. Oh reassure me, why do I feel as if I'm…

— Dave Matthews Band

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

— Neel Burton

“If a man tells you that he is fond of the Imitation , view him with sudden suspicion; he is either a…

— Ronald A. Knox

“Anything with the word 'Tesco' or 'Weight Watchers' on the label should be viewed with some suspicion.”

— Colin Bateman

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

— Lion Feuchtwanger

English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.

— George Mikes

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

— Alexander Cockburn

You usually don't care what other people are saying until they start whispering.

— Anonymous

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

People who come from a background of lying are suspicious of lying in others.

— Anonymous

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

— Horace

Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.

— Swami Vivekananda

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

— E. B. White

A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.

— Kehinde Wiley

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

— Wilkie Collins

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

— Mahatma Gandhi