Suspicious Quotes

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.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.

Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.

Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts.

It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words.

I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention.

Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

A man can please his wife with a box of candy, surprise her with a bouquet of flowers, and make her suspicious with a gold bracelet.

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

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.

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.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Be suspicious of what you want.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor;

for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in love. And I also feel suspicious of what it means to feel pretend love for someone.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world.

They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up.

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live.

.. Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

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.

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless.

Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his faith, are indications, if not of positive malevolence, at least of a suspicious and ruthless insecurity, which is characteristic more of a tyrant than of a wholly powerful and benevolent deity.

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them.

I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland.

Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

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!

I'm afraid of the dark,and suspicious of the light.

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

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

I grew up in Baltimore and that's why I root for the Orioles. I'm very suspicious of people who move and take on a new team. You should stick with the team of your youth all the way to your grave. That shows a sense of loyalty and devotion.