#suspicion

Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on? ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#semantics #suspicion #humor

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#around #bonds #burst #caught #eager

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. ↗

— Robert Burns

#heavy #impedes #more #protects #suspicion

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#could #lurking #rewarding #richest #simplified

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#becomes #does #everything #moment #motives

The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#environment #fundamental #fundamental problem #prism #problem

Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#cases #committee #congress #exploitation #human

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#declaring #fellow #fool #his #suspicions

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will. ↗

— James Monroe

#ill #preparation #stimulus #suspicion #war

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church. ↗

— John Templeton

#been #being #church #come #concept