Suspects Quotes - Page 22

• Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Past, Mystery

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.

  Bryan Procter

  Dream, Winning, Ems

  Bryan Waller Procter (1820). “A Sicilian Story ; with Diego de Montilla and Other Poems”, p.135

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• As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Feelings, Rare Occasion, May

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• I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.

  J. D. Salinger

  Artist, Hunger, Distraction

  "Whose Words Are They, Anyway?" by David Margolic, www.nytimes.com. November 01, 1987.

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• The more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more I suspect it to be singular, the more I feel it to be specific and personal; the more I feel it to be personal, the more I think of it to be a mere question; And the more I think of it to be a question, the less I understand the questioner.

  Kedar Joshi

  Life, Science, Thinking

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• God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

  George MacDonald

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.

  Ben Jonson

  House, Black, Brain

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1859). “The works of Ben Jonson”

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• Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might react to some of the recent industry-backed studies minimizing the dangers of global warming. I suspect future jurors will not be amused.

  David Ignatius

  Dream, Interesting, May

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• Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

  Patricia T. O'Conner

  Writing, Thinking

  Patricia T. O'Conner (2000). “Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know about Writing”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

  Edwin Meese

  People, Giving, Police

  "Justice under Reagan: Reagan seeks judges with 'traditional approach'". U.S. News & World Report, p. 67, October 14, 1985.

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• Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ... Put a question mark by everything you find suspect. Underline anything you really appreciate. Feel free to write 'splendid,' but also, 'I don't believe a word of it.' And even 'bullshit.'

  Tim Parks

  Believe, Writing, Hands

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• I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

  Ariel Gore

  New Relationship, Irritated, New Friends

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• I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation.

  David Hume

  Race, Civilization, Action

  David Hume (2007). “Essays: Moral, Political and Literary”, p.213, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Husband, Wife

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Book, Offering

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.

  Margaret of Valois

  Honor, Should

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• To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Giving, Revolution

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.148

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• O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Father, Distrust

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [161]

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• I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

  Charles Lamb

  Hate, Men, Matter

  "Charles Lamb: Selected Writings".

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• As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

  John Updike

  Life, Self, Years

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.3, Random House

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• I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.

  Gore Vidal

  Grandparent, Phrenology, Belief

  Gore Vidal, Donald Weise (1999). “Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, Collected Sex Writings”

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• The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

  Horace

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 16. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 771-72, 1922.

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• When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

  Kin Hubbard

  Moral, Opinion, Conformity

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• For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

  John Ridley

  Children, Real, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

  T. S. Eliot

  Loathing, Admiration, Efficiency

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Idea of a Christian Society”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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