Suspicious Quotes - Page 6

• Be suspicious of what you want.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Desire, Want

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• One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

  Thomas Merton

  Inspirational, Men, Mind Your Own Business

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.259, Shambhala Publications

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• He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if any compromise were made of it. He knew we were seekers after ease, suspicious, egotistic, and stubborn to a fault. He also knew that none of us would have continued our careers unless we had always been, and still were, helpless before this opportunity to take a chance.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Christian, Opportunity, Careers

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very
  friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.

  H. L. Mencken

  Numbers, Race, Leader

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.213, Knopf

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• A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

  Dan B. Allender

  Power, People, Leader

  Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.19, WaterBrook

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• Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

  Plato

  Plato, Swimming, Feelings

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• I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Political, Favors

  Interview with Brian Lamb, Booknotes C-SPAN, November 13, 1994.

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• Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.

  Daniel Goleman

  Life, Survival, Essentials

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• I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

  Slavoj Žižek

  Focus, Hatred, Annoyed

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• It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious. There you are, fat as can be. The whole world is yours and you're the answer to the Wright brothers' prayers. You say to yourself, nothing can go wrong ... all my trespasses are forgiven. Best you not believe it.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Brother, Prayer, Believe

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• I think Australians are rightly suspicious of people who will try and use religion for another end. I don't think that's right and I don't think it should be done, but I think it should inform values, and it does.

  Peter Costello

  Thinking, Australia, People

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• A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Fashion, People, Desire

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• In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.

  Lois Capps

  Years, Justice, President

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• Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.

  Mitchell Baker

  People, Floating, Ifs

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• Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious

  Hugo Black

  Law, Made, Protect

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• I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

  James Lileks

  Believe, Intelligent, Design

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• I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy amount become too much? There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive; in their case the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such. When morality is discussed I invariably discover, halfway into the conversation, that what is meant are not the great ethical questions but the rather dreary business of sexual habit, which to my mind is an aesthetic rather than an ethical issue.

  Edmund White

  Sex, Loneliness, Ethical Questions

  "States of Desire: Travels in Gay America". Book by Edmund White, 1980.

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• Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.

  Adrienne Clarkson

  People, Friendly, Encounters

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• I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.

  Scott MacDonald

  Party, White, Athletic

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• I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

  Neil Postman

  Technology, Trying, Negative

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• I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.

  Ryan Adams

  Men, Thinking, People

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

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• Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican immigrants in the US] I hope they can be treated with respect of the ones who came before and built this incredible immigrant nation.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Government, Years, Two

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• The chemistry of mind is different from the chemistry of love. The mind is careful, suspicious, he advances little by little. He advises “Be careful, protect yourself” Whereas love says “Let yourself, go!” The mind is strong, never falls down, while love hurts itself, falls into ruins. But isn’t it in ruins that we mostly find the treasures? A broken heart hides so many treasures.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Strong, Hurt, Fall

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• Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Real, People, Dangerous

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• Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Giving, Doubt, Myopic

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