#suspicion

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. ↗

— Joan Didion

#i think #irritation #lead #life #people

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#flavor #fraud #perhaps #suspicion

Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#aspirations #banks #because #begin #community

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#above #being #being pretty #compensation #getting

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

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

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#companion #good #mean #society #souls

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. ↗

— Richard Powers

#bodies #cobbled #desire #driven #human

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#any #course #created #each #had