Suspect Quotes

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

I do suspect that this world is hell.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.

My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take.