Suspicion Quotes

I am looked upon with suspicion. I am on the "other side."

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

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

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.

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

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.

Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime.

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.