Suspicious Quotes

252 Suspicious quotes by 224 unique authors

• Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. — John Lahr
• Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological… — Hanna Rosin
• I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source… — Teju Cole
• There are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together. — Alain de Botton
• Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there… — Unknown Author
• The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to… — Henry Rollins
• Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always… — Russell Smith
• While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of… — Elliott Abrams
• The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of… — J. G. Ballard
• After literally hundreds of firefights, Chosen Company became increasingly battle-hardened. And they also became increasingly suspicious of their Afghan counterparts, believing - with their lives… — Richard Engel
• Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it detains suspicious persons… — Annie Jacobsen
• A lot of people of my Ulster Protestant background would have been very suspicious of the notion of a film about Bloody Sunday. Our fear… — James Nesbitt
• I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport. — Ariel Pink
• To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. — Lu Xun
• There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying… — Thomas Mann
• I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not… — Tabare Vazquez
• We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or… — Jane Harman
• The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way… — Robert Morgan
• They can argue whatever they want. The problem is, when you interview every passenger, during the interviews you are looking for - you profile -… — Isaac Yeffet
• I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and… — Eric Liu
• Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not… — David Miliband
• I am very suspicious of people. — Unknown Author
• The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to question received opinions… — Robertson Davies
• Be ever vigilant, but never suspicious — Proverb

Who Wrote These Suspicious Quotes

224 authors contributed a total of 252 Suspicious Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 6 Suspicious Quotes by Unknown Author
• 3 Suspicious Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
• 3 Suspicious Quotes by Seth Meyers
• 3 Suspicious Quotes by Senoraroy
• 3 Suspicious Quotes by Samuel Johnson
• 2 Suspicious Quotes by Veronica Roth
• 2 Suspicious Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 2 Suspicious Quotes by Ryan Adams
• 2 Suspicious Quotes by Robertson Davies
• 2 Suspicious Quotes by Roald Dahl
• 2 Suspicious Quotes by Joseph Addison
• 2 Suspicious Quotes by John le Carre
• 2 Suspicious Quotes by H. L. Mencken
• 2 Suspicious Quotes by George R. R. Martin
• 2 Suspicious Quotes by Ernest K. Gann
• 2 Suspicious Quotes by David Letterman
• 2 Suspicious Quotes by Daniel Handler
• 2 Suspicious Quotes by Charles R. Swindoll
• 2 Suspicious Quotes by Carl Sagan
• 2 Suspicious Quotes by Barack Obama
• 1 Suspicious Quote by Yssubramanyam
• 1 Suspicious Quote by Woody Allen
• 1 Suspicious Quote by Wonderful Life
• 1 Suspicious Quote by William Hazlitt
• 1 Suspicious Quote by Wangari Maathai