Suspects Quotes

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

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Believe, Usual, Believing Him

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• One cannot be betrayed if one has no people.

  Takeru Kobayashi

  People, Stupidity, Usual

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.

  Colm Meaney

  Telling Stories, Directors, Actors

  "Q&A – Colm Meaney (Thomas Durant)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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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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• When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Two, Style

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.114

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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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• I suspect that, though Craig indulges in a bit of wishful thinking, playing taps for various critical approaches still quite far from death's door, he may well be correct that New Testament scholarship is more conservative than it once was. This has more than he admits to do with which denominations can afford to train the most students, hire more faculty, and send more members to the SBL.

  Robert M. Price

  Thinking, Doors, Indulge In

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• If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Want

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• Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel"; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason, because it is his own.

  John Balguy

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Like most people, Im fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Character, People, Personality

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• And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I'd pull gigs left, right and center because I was too f - - up.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Thinking, Gigs, Concerts

  Source: www.nola.com

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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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• Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.

  Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

  Stupid, Genius, Might

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• I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

  Pride, Years, Quality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous that others should think us still better than we think ourselves. To praise us for actions or dispositions which deserve praise is not to confer a benefit, but to pay a tribute. We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable, and which we are desirous to strengthen by a new suffrage; we have always hopes which we suspect to be fallacious, and of which we eagerly snatch at every confirmation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Heart, Thinking, Vanity

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.216

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• Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Jobs, Self, Assuming

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.276, A&C Black

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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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