#suspicious

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#secure #self-respect #suspicious #yet

I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#hat #spying #suspicious #london

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy. ↗

— Paul A. Volcker

#economy #entirely #i #i am #idea

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

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups. ↗

— Jane Harman

#community #expect #groups #infiltrate #intelligence

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

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

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#become #fatherland #inclined #more #nobody

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