#suspect

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#author #avoid #being #course #day

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche. ↗

— George Crumb

#arise #composers #deeper #discussions #i

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive! ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#audience #audiences #automatically #compliment #greatest

My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#ago #bali #bored #case #completely

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school. ↗

— John Knowles

#anyone #attended #class #conceivably #crucial

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy. ↗

— Frank Knox

#i #liberal #made #mercy #progress

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#another #being #bit #curious #depends

I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#blackout #caused #contributed #crisis #deterioration

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. ↗

— Jean Racine

#felt #heart #malice #never #noble

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#common sense #concern #deceiving #eyes #interested