Best Suspicion Quotations
411 Suspicion quotes by 340 unique authors
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Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the…
— Michael Parenti
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If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion…
— Rebecca West
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I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion…
— Jane Porter
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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In…
— Adrienne Rich
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Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of…
— Goldwin Smith
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After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his…
— Ron Chernow
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It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with…
— H. L. Mencken
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Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state,…
— Aeschines
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Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life’s work. Destroy his faith in its squareness…
— Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
— C S Forester
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The life we live today - the environment in which we live - is not one of security - it's one of doubt, one of…
— Reg Butler
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Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.
— John Shelton Reed
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The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that…
— Martin Caidin
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A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
— Wilson Mizner
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Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.
— John Buchanan Robinson
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It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.
— Adrian Lyne
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Mistrust is the fuel for so much mental pain, so many mental disorders. I am not talking here about the suspicions we sometimes have of…
— Lauren Slater
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As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go.…
— Dalai Lama
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All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal…
— Sarah Hall
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You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion…
— Alexander MacLaren
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt…
— William Shakespeare
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And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
— John Milton
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It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary. . . . Women were liable to a…
— Frederic Farrar
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To throw in a fair game at Hazards only three-spots, when something great is at stake, or some business is the hazard, is a natural…
— Gerolamo Cardano
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