#suspect

The cops came by and said my nemesis had been poisoned, shot, stabbed, beaten, hung, drowned, and subjected to Gilbert Gottfried’s voice at a high decibel level. “Ah,” I said, “so you suspect his death was a suicide.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#death #funny #humor #nemesis #police

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless. ↗

— Joe Biden

#become #emotion #smooth #style #suspect

The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#bill #closely #days #had #him

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#am #beyond #case #far #goes

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#done #fathers #larger #most #neighbors

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#eyes #forces #forms #give #her

Needless to say, there is no opportunity to interrogate or learn anything from a suspect who is vaporized by a missile launched by a keystroke executed thousands of miles away. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#away #executed #launched #learn #miles

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. ↗

— Lord Byron

#evil #generally #must #mystery #suspected

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. ↗

— Ayatollah Khamenei

#agents #behead #believe #cannot #conducting

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#cause #criminal #does #give #independently