Suspicious Quotes - Page 6

• We can't build our dreams on suspicious minds.

  Elvis Presley

  Dream, Advice, Mind

  Song: Suspicious Minds

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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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• Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste joy, and if we are suspicious of ecstasy, agony can never reach us either. Joy and sorrow are the parents of our spiritual growth.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Agony, Joy

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• That said, it was pretty awkward and a weird thing to shoot. Some women had a sense of humour about it and we'd laugh, but some were very serious and suspicious... like I might be doing something bad, or maybe they were just uncomfortable.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Laughing, Awkward, Might

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical rules seems even more dubious.

  Philip Kitcher

  Ideas, Dubious, Finals

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The Big Bang has gone away, but as far as Super String, that is suspicious for me. It all starts out with the notion of Big Bang, which if it were true, starts out with incredibly high temperatures. So they think [we] need to get these high temperatures for this broken symmetry; all this broken symmetry reunited, and we do not have enough energy in the whole galaxy to get to those temperatures, to prove their point. To me, that is the single flaw in Super String theory.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Thinking, Gone Away, Broken

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Religious, Antiques, Superstitions

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Religious, People, Purpose

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Plain Tales from the Hills: Rudyard Kipling Collection – 40+ Short Stories (The Tales of Life in British India): In the Pride of His Youth, Tods' Amendment, The Other Man, Lispeth, Kidnapped, Cupid's Arrows, A Bank Fraud, Consequences, Thrown Away, Watches of the Night, The Gate of a Hundred Sorrows…”, p.44, e-artnow

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• I'm always suspicious of politics dividing people instead of bringing them together.

  Barack Obama

  People, Together, Dividing

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• Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

  Emile Zola

  Government, Literature, Elude

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• I am automatically suspicious of things that wave their symbolism around and do little dances and bludgeon you over the head so that you [Darn] Well Know There's A Symbol Here.

  Ursula Vernon

  Symbolism, Littles, Wave

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• We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

  Jane Harman

  Organization, White, Community

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• The First Amendment...does not say that in every respect there shall be a separation of Church and State....Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other - hostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly....The state may not establish a 'religion of secularism' in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.

  William O. Douglas

  Believe, Church, Doe

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• A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed.

  Edward Gibbon

  Children, Judging, Guilt

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• The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

  Plutarch

  Disease, Usual, Neighbor

  Plutarch (1881). “Plutarch's Lives”

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• I was kind of unfriendly and suspicious of everyone around me. I didn't talk until I was about 15. It's a kind of famous story at my house.

  Mindy Kaling

  House, Stories, Kind

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Always remain suspicious that God is up to something good.

  Margaret Feinberg

  FaceBook post by Margaret Feinberg from Oct 18, 2015

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• It's no surprise that academics in this country have been generally suspicious of business or that in a time like this, when general public confidence in the corporation has fallen, the expressions of hostility grow sharper.

  James Q. Wilson

  Country, Expression, Corporations

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• I'm definitely suspicious of girls. I've been suspicious of girls my whole life, though, so it's not anything new.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Girl, Whole Life, Whole

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• The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.

  Henry Rollins

  Teenager, Punishment, Scary

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• Playboy has a long history of high-quality interviews along with the objectification of women, and so I think she does have a point there. I don't think that the words are necessarily nullified. It's just that that context is something you ought to be suspicious of.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Long, Quality

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Class, White, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Hocus Pocus”, p.27, Random House

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• The West doesn't have to love us. In fact, we should ask ourselves more often why people are so suspicious of us. After all, the West isn't a charity organization. How have we been perceived for centuries? As a huge, warlike realm ruled by despots - first by the czars and then Bolsheviks. Why should anyone have loved us? If we want to be accepted, we have to do something in return. And it's an art that we have yet to master.

  Vladislav Surkov

  Art, Organization, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Political, Shooting

  Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.465, Modern Library

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• I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

  Clarence Darrow

  Righteous, Righteous Indignation, Indignation

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.43, University of Chicago Press

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