Suspicion Quotes - Page 18

• Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.

  Preston Manning

  Matter, Policy, Subjects

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.

  Shimon Peres

  Israel, Nuclear, Bombs

  "Peres: Suspicion over Israeli nukes is good deterrent" by Ronny Sofer, www.ynetnews.com. September 1, 20070.

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• Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Order, Needs, Certainty

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, June 1, 2009.

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• Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune to be pitied and relieved, but a moral failing to be condemned, and in riches, not an object of suspicion ... but the blessing which rewards the triumph of energy and will.

  R. H. Tawney

  Fall, Character, Blessing

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.198, Verso Books

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• Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

  Thomas Cooper

  Truth, Religion, Doctrine

  Thomas Cooper (1829). “Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy ...”, p.375

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• What is art?... From a strictly logical point of view, a question with no clear answer comes under the suspicion of being meaningless. But a strictly logical point of view never shows us much about art.

  Carter Ratcliff

  Art, Views, Answers

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• I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves.

  Wolfgang Borchert

  Dark, Should, Planets

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• In the longer term, I hope that as Vietnam evolves into a more prosperous society with active ties to the international marketplace, it will lose its inherent suspicion of the outside world and begin to develop along the lines of what has recently been happening in Thailand and Malaysia.

  William J. Duiker

  Ties, Thailand, Lines

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• I have a suspicion, because if you look at the whole, all the [Star Wars ] movies, the backlog of every one of these movies, there's a lot of great stuff, but one might not be not as good with the writing in this or the acting in that or the directing in that, this has great actors, great directors, great script, and I really feel like we're gonna make the best one [movie with Young Han Solo].

  Woody Harrelson

  Stars, War, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• I think Donald Trump should be delegitimized for many reasons. And his response to this hacking is also cause for delegitimization. But to say we should move on, when the bedrock of American democracy, the sanctity of our elections, has been messed with, just raises suspicions. His denial of it happening or its seriousness shows that there is something really amiss from his end of it.

  David Corn

  Moving, Thinking, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.

  Cullen Hightower

  Ideas, Skepticism, Subjects

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• Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.

  Jane Porter

  Confidence, People, Failing

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.208

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• When you have a bad suspicion about a Muslim in your heart, you should increase your consideration toward him and make dua for him. This way you will infuriate Satan and will be able to drive him away. Because of this, Satan will be reluctant to put evil thoughts into your heart, afraid that you would increase your consideration towards your brother and will make dua for him again.

  Al-Ghazali

  Brother, Heart, Evil

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• My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

  Noel Coward

  Mind, Literature, Body

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.28, A&C Black

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• Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

  Tom Hanks

  Optimistic, Optimism, Tolerance

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• In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Jealousy, Lust, Want

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• Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

  E. B. White

  Freedom, Democracies Have, White

  New Yorker, 3 July 1943

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• I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the earth. He is the uncomely but intrepid defender of family, home, and bourgeois convention, and he will fight anything of any size that intrudes upon his smug existence. ... His eyes are small and lightless and capable of but one expression - suspicion. What he does not understand, he suspects, and what he suspects, he fights.

  Beryl Markham

  Eye, Home, Fighting

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.102, Open Road Media

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• My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.

  Gladys Taber

  Morning, Attitude, Hatred

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the stories which in any ancient narrative would have to arouse the historian's suspicion.

  Robert M. Price

  Religion, Stories, Narrative

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.75, Wildside Press LLC

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• The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.

  Aldous Huxley

  Simple, Keys, Light

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal.

  Jerry Hall

  Abnormal, Losing, Things You Love

  "Jerry Hall: Tall Tales of Texas". Interview with Bob Colacello and Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 1978.

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• the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Reality, Moats, Neurosis

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”

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• However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud, in that pure empyrean where God dwells, to irradiate every darkness of this world; light enough to clear every difficult question, remove every ground of obscurity, conquer every atheistic suspicion, silence every hard judgment, light enough to satisfy, nay, to ravish the mind forever.

  Horace Bushnell

  God, Dark, Clouds

  Horace Bushnell (1876). “Sermons for the New Life”, p.156

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• When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know--an authority good for nothing.

  Augustus William Hare

  Evil, Hearing, Authority

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.185

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