Suspects Quotes

• One cannot be betrayed if one has no people.

  Takeru Kobayashi

  People, Stupidity, Usual

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• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Believe, Usual, Believing Him

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• Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.

  Joy Williams

  Usual, Done, Courses

  Joy Williams (2016). “The Visiting Privilege”, p.20, Profile Books

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• They, who know no evil, will suspect none.

  Ben Jonson

  Evil, Knows

  "Every Man in his Humour".

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• I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.

  Charles Darwin

  Principles, Body, Facts

  Letter to J. Fiske, 8 December (1784)

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• We have come to discover what we suspect is a new political mindset emerging among a younger generation of political leaders socialized on Internet communications. Their politics are less about right versus left and more about centralized and authoritarian versus distributed and collaborative.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Communication, Leader, Political

  Jeremy Rifkin (2011). “The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World”, p.139, Macmillan

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• Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

  C. S. Lewis

  Screwtape Letters, Suspicion

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

  William Saroyan

  Enemy, Annoying, Stills

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• The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.401, Courier Corporation

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• There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Knowing, People, One Thing

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• Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others will find that not everyone is necessarily deceiving them, but they have already become deceivers themselves.

  Zicheng Hong

  Taoism, Deceiving, Sincere

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

  Howard Hodgkin

  Worry, Looks, England

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• And that's when you learned, your top fund-raiser was a murder suspect.

  Roy Payne

  Murder, Fund

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• The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust... Probably the first slave ship, with Negroes lying in chains on its decks, seemed commonsensical to the owners who operated it and to the planters who patronized it. But such a vessel would not be in the realm of common sense today. The only sense that is common, in the long run, is the sense of change.

  E. B. White

  Running, Lying, Silly

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• When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Husband, Father, Lovers

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• Lady Placida smiled. “History seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an argument could be made that you very much did earn the title.” “Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.” Lady Placida laughed. “True enough. But perhaps that is beginning to change.” She offered her hands. “It is a distinct pleasure to meet you, Steadholder.

  Jim Butcher

  Hands, Serendipity, Grace

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Academ's Fury”, p.200, Penguin

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• I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

  Stephen Fry

  Children, Insane, Would Be

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• No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.

  Michio Kaku

  Brain, Robots, Century

  "Space elevators and smart machines: Life in the year 2100" by Michio Kaku, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2011.

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• Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Boys, Views

  "Please, stop the Mark Zuckerberg love train" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2010.

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• 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.

  Alfred Adler

  Style, Suffering, Opponents

  Alfred Adler (1964). “PROBLEMS OF NEUROSIS: A BOOK OF CASE HISTORIES”

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• The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

  Imran Khan

  Children, War, Wife

  "Imran Khan: 'America is destroying Pakistan. We're using our army to kill our own people with their money'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2011.

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• Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

  Erica Jong

  Women, Taken, Gossip

  Charlotte Templin, Erica Jong (2002). “Conversations with Erica Jong”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Father, Thinking, Done

  "The Path of the Law". Address to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Harvard Law Review, Volume 10, March 25, 1897.

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• Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

  Walter Lippmann

  Funny, Humorous, Party

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• I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

  David Attenborough

  Transition, States, Enjoy

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

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