Suspicious Quotes - Page 13

• Some teams have a nucleus to build around. The Falcons barely have an embryo. So if you see suspicious looking wires running from the locker room to Dimitroff's office, and the general manager pushes down on the plunger as early as today, don't feel the need to cover your eyes. You've already seen the worst.

  Jeff Schultz

  Running, Team, Eye

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• People should be suspicious if every decision was unanimous.

  Don Iveson

  People, Decision, Should

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I used to think, "I can't go to these meetings because they'll make me believe in God. Make me go to church." I knew it wasn't right for me before I ever tried it. I was suspicious of anything outside my realm of experience. That same kind of attitude carries over into 12-step programs, because they are programs. There's this feeling that you don't need this bullshit, you can quit on your own. People that don't know anything about it seem to have a better idea. They haven't even been.

  Bucky Sinister

  Attitude, Believe, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an honest person, so I let the camera capture whatever it captures whether you believe it or not is up to you; it’s not my responsibility, blame my camera, not me.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Believe, Reading

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• Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

  Thomas Jefferson

  President, Newspapers, Freedom Of The Press

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.400, Penguin

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• If you come to doubt, I'll give you every reason to doubt. If you come suspicious, I'll give you every reason to be suspicious. But if you come seeking Love, I'll show you more love than you've ever known

  Mahavatar Babaji

  Giving, Doubt, Reason

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• If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called lazy. Dedicated burners of the midnight oil are called obsessed. And while it's obviously not a bad idea to hear and consider the opinions of others, you should be suspicious when these criticisms emerge right on the heels of success.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Oil, Ideas

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have as yet obtained very few individuals, I succeeded in finding in two of them certain remarkable and suspicious cells containing pigment identical in appearance to that of the parasite of malaria. As these cells appear to me to be very worthy of attention ... I think it would be advisable to place on record a brief description both of the cells and of the mosquitos.

  Ronald Ross

  Science, Thinking, Discovery

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• I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Gains, France, Madrid

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• Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jealousy, Passion, Play

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• I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things.

  Erland Josephson

  Real, Sweden, Accepted

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• Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious.

  Adamo Macri

  Life, Art, Doctors

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• I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency to ... vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other 'exotic' ways of understanding.

  Adrienne Rich

  White, People, Understanding

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Romantic Love, Two, Looks

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Venus Envy”, p.174, Bantam

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

  William Hazlitt

  Betrayal, Secret, Violent

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1179, Delphi Classics

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• When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.

  Robin Morgan

  People, Problem, Wells

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

  Denis Diderot

  Risk

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• I'm suspicious of epiphanies, because they so rarely last.

  Tom Barbash

  Lasts, Epiphany

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm more than a little suspicious of humor in poems, because I think it can at times be a way of getting a reaction out of a reader, or an audience, that is something closer to relief: i.e., thank god this isn't poetry, but stand-up comedy. Some poets are really funny, but more often poets are fourth rate stand up comics at best. But they benefit from the sheer relief of the audience.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Thinking, Thank God, Benefits

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think working in the industry, I'd be pretty nervous to have a celebrity crush. I'd be pretty nervous if my boyfriend did as well because inevitably you'd end up working with them and then it would feel very suspicious.

  Bella Heathcote

  Crush, Thinking, My Boyfriend

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• There are no general-interest media that all of us can tap into. I'm not a good person to talk to about social media. I just avoid it. I'm suspicious also of the culture of venting. But the bigger question is, How can we in this media world have a genuine civic conversation? I mean, look at Franklin Roosevelt. He had these radio talks that all Americans listened to, and there was a common civic conversation that came out of it.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Mean, Media, World

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, and Hell is like the inside of a volcano. In many stories, both realms are governed by dominance hierarchies headed by gods or devils. Monotheists talked about the king of kings. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe. Few found the similarity suspicious.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Kings, Volcanoes

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.65, Ballantine Books

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• Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Age

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• Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Common, Failing

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.107

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• In fact, if you read what Kant has to say about feeling, desire and emotion, you see that he is not at all hostile to these. He is suspicious of them insofar as they represent the corruption of social life (here he follows Rousseau), but he also thinks a variety of feelings (including respect and love of humanity) arise directly from reason - there is, in other words, no daylight between the heart and the head regarding such feelings.

  Allen W. Wood

  Heart, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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