Suspicious Quotes - Page 15

• The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.

  John Norman

  Wall, Enemy, Stranger

  John Norman (2011). “Outlaw of Gor: Gor”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them.

  Barack Obama

  Democracy, Sometimes, Discourse

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government, in a democratic society. It's a challenge for school reformers, like reformers in any realm, to build a popular constituency for their work. If the people it's supposed to benefit vote against it, that tells me that the person pushing reform lacks political skill. And political skill is a good thing.

  Nicholas Lemann

  School, Government, Skills

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.

  Jim Rohn

  Fundamentals, Antiques, Littles

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 01, 2016

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• My existence is such that "I" do not really exist. At the end of understanding so much I understand that I know nothing. I suffer for being surrounded by intense suffering and yet I'm deeply suspicious if first of all there is indeed any consciousness except me. I strive to find the artist who might have fathered this great universal art but feel myself to be too feeble to accomplish this seemingly unattainable mission. Yet I have every respect for life, and it is this sheer respect that makes me live.

  Kedar Joshi

  Art, Understanding, Suffering

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• I know people are going to be suspicious about everyone now. I know I don't have anything to hide. I've never done anything. It's just a shame it's gotten to this point.

  Ryan Howard

  People, Done, Shame

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• It was not necessarily the best of times in America when Catholics and Protestants were suspicious of and hated one another; but at least they were taking their beliefs seriously, and the more or less satisfactory accommodations they worked out were not simply the result of apathy about the state of their souls.

  Allan Bloom

  America, Catholic, Soul

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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  Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Sex, People, Acting

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

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• Now, if laughter is proper to the human being, then the human being who does not laugh invites the charge of inhumanity, or at least makes us somewhat suspicious.

  Simon Critchley

  Laughter, Laughing, Doe

  Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy Simon Critchley, Simon Critchley (2011). “On Humour”, p.35, Routledge

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• Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.

  Walter E. Williams

  Way, Know It All, Claims

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• Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Sincerity, Livelihood, Depends

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• The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Kitsch, Should, Sentimentality

  Robert C. Solomon (2004). “In Defense of Sentimentality”, p.253, Oxford University Press

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• [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.

  Paul Murray Kendall

  Secret, Boards, Agents

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• I didn't know how we were going to get jobs out of NAFTA, but I tend to be suspicious of these things, like NAFTAs and WTOs and so on.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Jobs, Nafta, Know How

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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• That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in [Louis] Brandeis, continues through the New Deal, but then it sort of peters out in the '60s because progressives in particular become more interested in extending equality to minorities, and women, and other excluded groups, and little more suspicious of these old white guys, often from the south, who were crusaders against monopolies.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Running, Egalitarianism, White

  Source: www.slate.com

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• In fact, if you read what Kant has to say about feeling, desire and emotion, you see that he is not at all hostile to these. He is suspicious of them insofar as they represent the corruption of social life (here he follows Rousseau), but he also thinks a variety of feelings (including respect and love of humanity) arise directly from reason - there is, in other words, no daylight between the heart and the head regarding such feelings.

  Allen W. Wood

  Heart, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that.

  Anna Netrebko

  Needs, Littles, Our Lives

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• The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Silence, Important, Unsaid

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• But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Technological Change, Opening Up, America

  Fareed Zakaria (2009). “The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Murderer, Fatherland

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• Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.

  Dylan Moran

  Soup, Want, Firsts

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• By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

  Steve Albini

  Wise, Rocks, Band

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• I don't fall in love very easily. It takes a long time, and then, when I have fallen in love, I'm still not sure. I'm suspicious of myself. What if tomorrow I don't feel the same? I have to wait, to be sure. And I wait and wait.

  Joey Comeau

  Falling In Love, Long, Waiting

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• Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Animal, Survival, Novelty

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.76, Macmillan

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• I am suspicious of both facility and speed.

  Roald Dahl

  Rewriting, Speed, Facility

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