Suspicion Quotes - Page 19

• We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

  Harry S. Truman

  Peace, War, Communication

  "Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)" by M.P. Singh, p. 101, January 1, 2005.

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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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• In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel as if they’re foreigners - even in their native lands. In our hearts... there also abides a certain suspicion that such people need to feel set apart from their society. But people who initiate loneliness are no less lonely than those who are suddenly surprised by loneliness, nor are they undeserving of our pity.

  John Irving

  Lonely, Loneliness, Heart

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• When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Mean, Thinking, Done

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• What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

  Jim Bishop

  Real, Writing, Men

  "Talk With Jim Bishop" by Lewis Nichols, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 1955.

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• Brothers and sisters, love the earth. Be true to the earth, and do not believe those seducers who look longingly to the world beyond, casting suspicion on this world. Jesus is the greatest friend of the earth-Jesus who again and again, in the original spirit of Judaism, proclaimed love for the soil and love for the land. "Blessed are the peacemakers," he said, "for they shall possess the earth."

  Eberhard Arnold

  Jesus, Brother, Believe

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• Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Stars, Light, Darkness

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• He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Brother, Judging

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• But just one gram of suspicion weighs heavier than a kilo of truth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Truth, Science, Weight

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• We live in a world that is dominated by war, hate, violence and suspicion. Those are the things that come naturally in this world. So you have to will something else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Hate, War

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• As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.

  Jay Sekulow

  Jesus, Might, Messiah

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• I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

  John Shelton Reed

  Nice, Successful, Thinking

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• The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

  Hamid Karzai

  War, States, Worst

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• The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - unless he happens to be an American, when his ignorance of good manners is indulged.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Ignorance, Good Man, Privacy

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• I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.

  Mark Hamill

  Actors, Way, Ifs

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

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• [About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their jobs within 65 days.] No conceivable damage to the university at the hands of hypothetical Communists among us could possibly have equaled the damage resulting from the unrest, ill-will and suspicion engendered by this series of events.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Loyalty, Jobs, Science

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• There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Average, Faces

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.

  Learned Hand

  Gossip, Rumor, Inquiry

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.

  Jewel

  Unified

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• California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky,is where we run out of continent.

  Joan Didion

  Running, Loss, Sky

  Joan Didion (1968). “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

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• It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

  John Updike

  Lying, Deceit, Lateness

  "Couples". Book by John Updike, 1968.

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• Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing that the suspicion comes to me that it may only be a myth after all.

  Charles Fort

  Believe, May, Belief

  Charles Fort (1941). “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”, p.1048, Courier Corporation

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• (An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Discrepancies Between, Unhappy Childhood, Preparation

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• How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!

  Auguste Rodin

  Rejection, Helping, Painful

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• I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.

  Ansel Adams

  Fall, Taken, Past

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