Suspect Quotes

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.

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

I do suspect that this world is hell.

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.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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.

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.

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.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

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

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.

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

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

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.

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

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.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.

I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses of covert surveillance. I suspect that emails will be the next scandal. And devices that track people moving around. That's just starting to come out.