#suspicious

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 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

Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not stymie international clarity and consensus about the endgame in terms of borders and other issues. ↗

— David Miliband

#between #borders #clarity #consensus #each

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#avant-garde #being #every #idea #keeps

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#i #other #people #repent #sins

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#power #say #suspicious #vocation

I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in love. And I also feel suspicious of what it means to feel pretend love for someone. ↗

— Sara Quin

#sara-quin #snti-love #suspicious #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#becomes #corrupt #enemy #happiness #less

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#i #i think #lot #nasa #people