Suspects Quotes - Page 27

• A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.

  Ben Jonson

  House, Black, Brain

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1859). “The works of Ben Jonson”

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• Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might react to some of the recent industry-backed studies minimizing the dangers of global warming. I suspect future jurors will not be amused.

  David Ignatius

  Dream, Interesting, May

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• The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

  Horace

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 16. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 771-72, 1922.

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• Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

  Aimee Mann

  Sex, Freak, Save Me

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• A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite handle attachments to humans.

  Caroline Knapp

  Animal, Thinking, Attachment

  Caroline Knapp (2010). “Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs”, p.10, Dial Press

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• We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.

  Ali Khamenei

  Believe, People, Agents

  "Iran: U.S., Israel Behind Iraq Beheadings". www.foxnews.com. July 13, 2004.

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• I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.

  Steven Johnson

  Sports, Dragons, Games

  Steven Johnson (2006). “Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter”, p.8, Penguin

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• The more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more I suspect it to be singular, the more I feel it to be specific and personal; the more I feel it to be personal, the more I think of it to be a mere question; And the more I think of it to be a question, the less I understand the questioner.

  Kedar Joshi

  Life, Science, Thinking

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• There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only several hundred years ago that we invented something called the microscope. Since then worlds whose existence we did not suspect have become commonplace

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Order, Years

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Children, Real, Teaching

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• We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

  Robert James Graves

  Sound, Drs, Ears

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• I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, New York, Giving

  "A Giant artistic Gibe at Jesse Helms" by Roberta Smith, New York Times, April 20, 1990.

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• Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Past, Mystery

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.

  Bryan Procter

  Dream, Winning, Ems

  Bryan Waller Procter (1820). “A Sicilian Story ; with Diego de Montilla and Other Poems”, p.135

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• As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Feelings, Rare Occasion, May

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• I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.

  J. D. Salinger

  Artist, Hunger, Distraction

  "Whose Words Are They, Anyway?" by David Margolic, www.nytimes.com. November 01, 1987.

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• I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, May, Might

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 29, 2017

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• I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith

  Mortimer Adler

  Religious, Blind, Individual

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1992). “A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet I suspect...they do not care. They don’t want to see what is done in their name. They do not want to look at the rows of flag-draped coffins, the horribly maimed bodies and faces of veterans, or the human suffering in the blighted and deserted former manufacturing centers. It is too upsetting. Government and corporate censorship is therefore welcomed and appreciated.

  Curtis White

  Selfish, Government, Names

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• Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Girlfriend, School, Boys

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• I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.

  Zhang Ziyi

  People

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• I'm fascinated by politicians, because I suspect the huge majority of them go into it full of ideas and for the best possible reasons but end up being hijacked.

  Kevin Whately

  Ideas, Majority, Politician

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• I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Selfish, Desire

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• I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought.

  Mortimer Adler

  Religious, Believe, Intellectual

  "A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large".

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• Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Thinking, Giving

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