Suspect Quotes - page 4

I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying. (Geraldine Brooks)
I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true of me, too. View quote
Amy Bloom
No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart. View quote
Kim Edwards
A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself. View quote
Margaret of Valois
The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin. View quote
Ariel Gore
I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment. View quote
Adam Hamilton
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. View quote
Augustus Hare
We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime. View quote
Bianca Jagger
I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors. (Colm Meaney)
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! View quote
Carlisle Floyd
Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other. View quote
Esa-Pekka Salonen
To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect. View quote
Evan Parker
I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women. View quote
Frances O'Grady
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. View quote
Frank Knox
On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so. View quote
Geoff Mulgan
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. View quote
George Crumb
People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse. View quote
Jodhi May
What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me? View quote
Kojo Annan
The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste. (Manny Farber)
We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before. View quote
Robert James Graves
I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit. View quote
Stephen Dunn
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness. View quote
Timothy Radcliffe
Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it. View quote
Tom Flynn