Suspicious Quotes · Page 9

I'm a suspicious mulatto, which means I'm too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.

— Lemon Andersen

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

— Bill Vaughan

When liberals are behind something, I'm automatically suspicious.

— Rush Limbaugh

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

— Emile Zola

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

— Dan B. Allender

I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more…

— A. S. Byatt

My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than…

— Stark Young

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too…

— Thomas Mann

“women are so suspicious of any interest that has not some obvious motive behind it, so terribly accustomed to concealment and suppression,…

— Virginia Woolf

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

— Eric Hoffer

Fear is a dangerous thing. Once it is sanctioned by the state there is no telling where it might lead. It is…

— Justin Trudeau

I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious.

— Jim Gaffigan

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of…

— Alexandre Dumas

I used to think, "I can't go to these meetings because they'll make me believe in God. Make me go to church."…

— Bucky Sinister

Playboy has a long history of high-quality interviews along with the objectification of women, and so I think she does have a…

— Cornel West

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.…

— Thomas Jefferson

Now, as far as monitoring is concerned, what my point is, we need to make sure that any place - I don't…

— Benjamin Carson

“I had always been suspicious of women who described the dissolution of their marriages as something that happened overnight. How could you…

— Jodi Picoult

Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchist…

— Howard Zinn

'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be…

— Charles Dickens

There are no general-interest media that all of us can tap into. I'm not a good person to talk to about social…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die…

— Andrea Bocelli

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical…

— Philip Kitcher

My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or…

— Malcolm X

You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to…

— Daniel H. Wilson

A disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, [the Americans] will be divided and subdivided into…

— Josiah Tucker

I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for…

— Jeff Tweedy

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting.…

— Teju Cole

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian…

— Russell Smith

There are many Americans who regardless of the intelligence or the profound political persuasion of a figure will never vote for a…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all…

— Honore de Balzac

“We should use discernment to connect dots, avoid traps, and make wise judgments without becoming too judgmental, suspicious, and faultfinders.”

— Assegid Habtewold

The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is…

— John Norman

“People being nice for no apparent reason always made me suspicious. People being nice to me with no apparent reason made me…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I believe Costco does more for civilization than the Rockefeller Foundation. I think it's a better place. You get a bunch of…

— Charlie Munger

I wonder how many illegal migrants fanned out across the country while I and others were subjected to the stone-faced, suspicious inefficiency…

— Peter Hitchens

I know people are going to be suspicious about everyone now. I know I don't have anything to hide. I've never done…

— Ryan Howard

When shopping at Dunkin' Donuts, pretend you are the mother of nine. Say things like, 'Little David likes cream-filled and Susie wanted…

— Linda Sunshine