#suspicious

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#am #deeply #fond #i #i am

They can argue whatever they want. The problem is, when you interview every passenger, during the interviews you are looking for - you profile - you do profiling, to find the suspicious ones and put them out from the rest of the passengers. ↗

— Isaac Yeffet

#during #every #find #interview #interviews

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#doubts #every #evil #formidable #lurking

I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#am #big #big deal #bin #creation

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#brutal #feels #idea #like #middle-class

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence? ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#between #how #i #i love #idea

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ↗

— Hal Borland

#accuse #bird #challenge #ideology #squirrel

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly. ↗

— Adrienne Clarkson

#encounter #fearful #forget #friendly #hear

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#because #how #i #i was raised #looking

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America. ↗

— Eric Liu

#arrogance #best #connotations #cover #fixed