Suspects Quotes - Page 31

• I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.

  Jo Brand

  Real, Struggle, People

  "Jo Brand: If the Tories are re-elected in 2015, it could be the end of the NHS" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. June 14, 2013.

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• To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

  Jane Campion

  Ethos, Vision, Directors

  Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his maker. Rorty argued that secular professors ought “to arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own.

  Richard Rorty

  Religious, Atheist, College

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• At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in a new light, it behooves us in our scientific thinking to become masters of the situation, for it is not inconceivable that sooner than we suspect, as has often been the case before in history, this vision may disappear, the opportunity may be lost, and the world will once again present a static, uniform, and inflexible countenance.

  Karl Mannheim

  Opportunity, Men, Thinking

  "Ideology and Utopia". Book by Karl Mannheim, 1936.

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• To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Nice, Thinking, Choices

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• Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Ocean, Sea, Circles

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.556, Penguin

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• Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.

  Jennifer Lee Carrell

  Knowledge, Quality, Excellent

  Jennifer Lee Carrell (2007). “Interred with Their Bones”, p.57, Penguin

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• I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

  Nick Cave

  Invisible

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• To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.

  Michael Ignatieff

  War, Evil, May

  New York Times magazine, May 2, 2004.

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• I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect.

  Stanley Donwood

  Trying, Generations, England

  "Radiohead Artist Stanley Donwood". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 15, 2010.

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• I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary tenets of anti-racism without going to jail.

  Jim Goad

  Thinking, Jail, Racism

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Fear, Prosperity, Pessimism

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• Studying the young woman’s long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different.

  J. K. Rowling

  Long, Different, Legs

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.

  Neal Shusterman

  Islands, Engineering, Bridges

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.739, Simon and Schuster

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• I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Wise, Smart, School

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• ...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

  Emma Donoghue

  Pain, Expectations, Cynical

  Emma Donoghue (2013). “Hood”, p.145, Pan Macmillan

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• What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Few Words, Inquiry

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.210, Vintage

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• One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.

  Barack Obama

  Eight, Years, People

  Source: time.com

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• He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.

  Julian Barnes

  Opposites, Common Sense, Decision

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• I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

  Tennessee Williams

  Believe, Self, Doubt

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin, Nancy Marie Patterson Tischler (2002). “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: 1920-1945”, p.341, New Directions Publishing

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• Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect.

  Steven Pinker

  Cowboy, Hair, Long

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems part of the creativity, though I sometimes suspect that it's nothing but a burden and an obstacle.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Struggle, Creativity, Views

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Thinking, Ambitious

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  People, Sense Of Humor, Honest

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• Never have one kid in the room with you, and avoid situations that would look suspect to a passerby.

  Raheem Jarbo

  Kids, Looks, Rooms

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