Suspect Quotes

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.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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.

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

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

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

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.

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.

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.

In due course, following an additional debriefing, the FBI confirmed to me and to my former counsel, Tom Carter, that I was not a suspect in this case. I assumed that my involvement in the investigation was over.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

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.

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.

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.