Suspicious Quotes

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.

I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

They can argue whatever they want. The problem is, when you interview every passenger, during the interviews you are looking for - you profile - you do profiling, to find the suspicious ones and put them out from the rest of the passengers.

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.

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.

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 warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.