Suspects Quotes - Page 35

• It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

  Peter Kreeft

  Crazy, Shakes, Reasonable

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• One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Might, Universe

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.229, Dial Press

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• And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant

  J. M. Coetzee

  Cold

  J. M. Coetzee (2009). “Summertime: Fiction”, Viking Press

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• Townsend shrugged. 'With all due respect to the good doctor, I highly suspect he's a moron.

  Ally Carter

  Doctors, Moron, Dues

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.

  Umberto Eco

  Thinking, Novelists, Biased

  "Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.theparisreview.org. Summer 2008.

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• Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.

  Ann Brashares

  Long, Separation, Mourn

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.42, Random House

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• Mildred waves Carlos over. 'Let me look at you.' She eyes him up and down. 'I saw you when you walked in. What's with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan.' 'I suspect I am a hooligan,' he says to her. 'Whatever that means.

  Simone Elkeles

  Tattoo, Mean, Eye

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• But how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom incentives to evil? You do not know the depths of human frailty. . . Oh, how truly was it said that if some Christian women could only suspect the temptations and falls they cause in others with modes of dress and familiarity in behavior, which they unthinkingly consider as of no importance, they would be shocked by the responsibility which is theirs.

  Pope Pius XII

  Christian, Fall, Responsibility

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• On your birthday today, don't
  Look up 'Life Expectancy' coz I suspect
  As you've reached 60, you want to be happy,
  Trust me, you'll be depressed.

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Looks, Want

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• I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

  Derek Bok

  Caring, Community, Members

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• All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Laughter, Argument, I Can

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• If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Ignorance, World

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.153, Innovations and Information

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• I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done. This talent, or these two talents, I have cultivated. Silence and concise, brief speaking have got me some laurels, and, I suspect, lost me some. No odds. Do what is natural to you, and you are sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Odds, Two, Silence

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, November 20, 1872.

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• He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so gray, so cramped about the eyes, and not quite so corpulent. But is this not quarreling with nature?

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Eye, Portraits, Truthful

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• If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Color, Wings, People

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• Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.

  Edward Bouverie Pusey

  Littles, Deceiving, Neglect

  Edward Bouverie Pusey (1883). “Maxims and gleanings from the writings of E.B. Pusey, selected by C.M.S.”

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• It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Enemy, Dangerous

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• It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.

  Katharine Tynan

  People, Dying, Strange

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• Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate to less difficult nations. It's the old Rule of Capital: Capital goes where it is treated well.

  Oliver DeMille

  Jobs, Simple, Reality

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• Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wings, Fans, Blades

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• I suspect that a lot of the stress we see around us arises from the cognitive dissonance set up by one side of the brain hearing very plausible spin while the other side knows it just ain't so.

  David Palmer

  Stress, Brain, Cognitive Dissonance

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• Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.

  Roselyne Bosch

  Your Side, Sides, Surrender

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Staying, we all know, is not the norm in our mobile culture. A great deal of money is spent each day to create desires in each of us that can never be fulfilled. I suspect that much of our restlessness is a return on this investment.

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Desire, Culture, Each Day

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010). “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”, p.11, Paraclete Press

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• I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.

  Molly Ivins

  Gun, People, Bangs

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• The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.

  Paul Valery

  Attitude, Justice, Judging

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