Top 100 Suspected Quotes
#1. Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.
Augusten Burroughs
#2. Who's the best person you know. Of all the people you know personally, is there anyone who has a sense of right and wrong and lives by it? This was a sticky question because it would have to be Ranger ... but I suspected he occasionally killed people. Only bad people, of course, but still ...
Janet Evanovich
#3. Mr. Norrell did not know a great deal about war, but he suspected that soldiers are not generally your great respecters of books. They might put their dirty fingers on them. They might tear them! They might- horror of horrors!- read them and try the spells!
Susanna Clarke
#4. The police, finding a corpse with twenty-eight stab wounds in a bathtub, suspected foul play.
Tim Kreider
#5. In the lab, we could not see or physically describe the mathematical objects that we called quarks, which we suspected were the key to unlocking the dynamics of the strong force that binds together the clump of protons and neutrons at the center of the atom.
David Gross
#6. The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.
X.J. Kennedy
#7. I suspected that the man was ailing, ailing in the spirit in some way, or in his temperament or character, and I shrank from him with the instinct of the healthy.
Hermann Hesse
#8. Greetings. My name is Don Tillman and I am a suspected paedophile. I wish to put myself on standby for an assessment.
Graeme Simsion
#9. Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!
Gerald Morris
#10. I was finally convinced of something I had suspected for a long time: God has a sense of humor, and because the world is wondrous, God expects us to find reasons to smile even on the darkest days.
Dean Koontz
#12. When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#13. She was thirteen T-years older than he, but there was something uncannily familiar about his emotions where she was concerned. Somehow, without realizing it was happening, she'd acquired a MacGuiness with a gun, and she suspected her life would never be quite the same again. She
David Weber
#14. It is better to reveal a weakness than allow oneself be suspected of a vice.
Denis Diderot
#15. I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.
Dan Phillips
#16. For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
Gabrielle Zevin
#17. In the next moment, Danvers began to recite the Lord's prayer, which was rather sacrilegious to her mind considering that she suspected he'd burst into flames if he dared enter a church, but she wasn't going to complain.
Lynsay Sands
#18. I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.
Frank Herbert
#19. You're clear, Mr. Duke." Grins from both of them. What could Felix possibly be suspected of smuggling, a harmless old thespian like him? It's the words that should concern you, he thinks at them. That's the real danger. Words don't show up on scanners.
Margaret Atwood
#20. Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting ... and life.
Randeep Hooda
#21. A large fierce-looking dog whom Poirot suspected of having mange growled from his position on a moderately comfortable fourth chair.
Agatha Christie
#22. Concurring.' But now we know what I suspected. Two people on the board voted for acquittal, which means there are
Nelson DeMille
#23. When I started acting, I thought if I got one or two jobs a year I'd be lucky. So yeah, my career has gone so much farther than I ever suspected it would, and as such I feel lucky for everything I get. I feel thankful and grateful.
James McAvoy
#24. Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
Emily Dickinson
#25. Well, that settles it," Jason said with mock severity. "Such condescension tells me what I had long suspected."
"Which is . . ."
"That George Bambridge was not raised with the benefit of a sister.
Kate Noble
#26. Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta.
Lewis Nordan
#27. To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#28. He suspected that any life form that inflicted unnecessary pain tended to find its consciousness eroding. Without consciousness to reflect back upon life, all life might lose its sense of purpose.
Frank Herbert
#29. I'm glad that the NSA is trying to find out what the terrorists are up to overseas and in our country. I'm glad that activity is going on, but it is limited to tracking people who are suspected to be terrorists and who they may be talking to ... Yes, I am sure that that's what they're doing.
Lindsey Graham
#30. The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The immense relief of finding this a false alarm! The joy, and gratitude, and ecstasy!
Charles Dickens
#31. Cool was a mild term for her demeanor. In truth, he suspected icebergs at the North Pole might be a shade or two warmer.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#32. I had not said anything about what had happened the day before - about being scared down to my very bones when I thought they had left me. I don't know what came over me. Ever since my mother left us that April day, I suspected that everyone was going to leave, one by one.
Sharon Creech
#33. I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form of brain-damaging indoctrination.
Hazel Henderson
#34. I suspected he was a damaged soul, but he was a beautiful one too.
L.A. Fiore
#35. Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily newsects and last of all, which of all other I should never have forseen or once suspected, he hath raised up a sect such as teach ... that men should not be terrified by the Law, but gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.
Martin Luther
#36. The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I might be, forever and ever amen, a Crazy Person. That's what we'd suspected all along, what I'd been working so hard to disprove, what might be true. I preferred, by far, being dead.
Marya Hornbacher
#37. I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.
John Amaechi
#38. ...he lived with the consequences of self discovery and i suspected this was a more exacting hardship than anything the world might have worked out for him...
Don DeLillo
#39. Thanks to the Internet, people we might have only suspected of being idiots can now give us ample evidence.
Andy Borowitz
#40. Annie knew that her mother's marbles were loose, but had never suspected that one day they would all fly out of the bag at the same time, bouncing into far-flung corners, never to be gathered together again.
Sarah-Kate Lynch
#41. I should have suspected my husband was lazy. On our wedding day, his mother told me: "I'm not losing a son; I'm gaining a couch."
Phyllis Diller
#42. You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.
Elsie De Wolfe
#43. Come on! You must have at least suspected there was someone else," he said. "Couldn't you smell her on his pants?
Merrill Markoe
#44. Although it was almost midnight, London wasn't dark. Cities like London never were, she suspected, not anymore. The modern world had killed nighttime.
Kate Morton
#45. He was the guy who always won the game of chicken because his opponents suspected he might actually enjoy a head-on collision.
Michael Lewis
#46. Men of conservative temperament have long suspected that one thing leads to another.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#47. Toto did not like this addition to the party at first. He smelled around the stuffed man as if he suspected there might be a nest
L. Frank Baum
#48. What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hungry for it? Failed idealism, he suspected. We disappoint ourselves and then look around for other failures to convince ourselves: it's not just me. (15)
Mary Doria Russell
#49. Whenever a homeless person speaks to me in the USA, I always assume that I am speaking to a police officer and play along with the suspected charade.
Steven Magee
#50. I didn't want to prejudge but based on the company he kept, the glistening of his suit, and the poser-like swagger, I somehow suspected that Shiny Suit was what the students today technically refer to as a douchebag.
Harlan Coben
#51. What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.
Patti Smith
#52. If he was truly as old as she suspected, she was likely little more than a speck of dust to him, a fizzle of life in the long-burning fire of his immortality.
Sarah J. Maas
#53. The dog kept tipping his head up to Annabel, and then to the path ahead, and then back to Annabel again. It was how he used to follow his father, Ross recalled, and suspected his wife had been adopted by the beast in his father's place. He
Lynsay Sands
#54. People were supposed to cry at weddings; they just weren't supposed to cry because they suspected that the bride was going to die.
Alethea Kontis
#55. Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.
Robert Cormier
#56. for decades doctors never suspected that this "useless" tissue might actually have a use that escaped their detection. The
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#57. I suspected, around the time I graduated college, that we're all versions of targets, fired at by indifferent events. If that was the case, then I wanted to be a moving target.
Patton Oswalt
#58. One recent menu for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo consisted of orange glazed chicken, fresh fruit crepe, steamed peas and mushrooms, and rice pilaf. Sounds like the sort of thing you'd get at Windows on the World - if it still existed.
Ann Coulter
#59. Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
Richard Perle
#60. I recall how I suspected at the time that my young friend was indulging in her first bout of calf love.
Margaret Westhaven
#61. Ocean: The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there.
-Madeline (Madeline's Dictionary)
Nicola Yoon
#62. There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.
Vasily Grossman
#63. Old Blotnik had been mumbling so steadily for so many years, Ozzie suspected he had memorized the prayers and forgotten all about God. It
Philip Roth
#64. It was funny because she thought of herself as a good team player, although sometimes she suspected that no one else on her team did.
Kate Atkinson
#65. What those years said of themselves was that they were the most joyous of years, and anyone who failed to rejoice was immediately suspected of lamenting the victory of the working class or |what was equally sinful| giving way individualistically to inner sorrows.
Milan Kundera
#66. Ah well. He'd beaten her twice sind then: once on their honeymoon, though he still suspected her of throwing the game, and once on the day she lost the baby. And two out of eight hundred and six wasn't too bad, against such an opponent.
K.J. Parker
#67. At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#68. I had to quit lifting weights because people suspected I was using steroids. Nope. My penis is naturally this small.
Jarod Kintz
#69. Perrin suspected Lini was one of those women who saw her "place" as being in charge. Come to think of it, most women did. That was the way of the world, it seemed, not just the Two Rivers.
Robert Jordan
#70. It is strongly suspected that a NEWTON or SHAKESPEARE excels other mortals only by a more ample development of the anterior cerebral lobes, by having an extra inch of brain in the right place.
Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
#71. To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done, or might have done, or are in some quarters strongly suspected of having done, is never enough unless others, numberous others, will say it for you.
Joyce Carol Oates
#72. There you are," she says flinging her arms. "And just as I suspected. I've been worrying my ass off and you've been having multiple orgasms at the end of a Greek god's penis. Figures.
M. Leighton
#73. Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay ... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.
Chaz Bono
#74. It was, I suspected, not the first time that a patient had consoled a doctor about the ineffectuality of his discipline.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#75. Really, I don't know what the world is coming to if I am to be suspected of staring in at windows!
Georgette Heyer
#76. The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer has seen something unusual in the sky that he interprets as probable evidence of alien presence.
Seth Shostak
#77. When Paul announced himself in a rather formal way to the secretary, he said simply, "I am Watzlawick." She suspected he was a new psychiatric patient showing up for an appointment at the wrong time, and she interpreted his introduction as, "I am not Slavic.
Paul Watzlawick
#78. Second - to Miss Hermione Granger ... for the use of cool logic in the face of fire, I award Gryffindor house fifty points.
Hermione buried her face in her arms; Harry strongly suspected she had burst into tears.
J.K. Rowling
#79. Evelyn suspected there was never true equality in marriage. Someone always had stronger feelings, or held the purse strings, or was more persuasive, powerful, and pushy.
Victoria Helen Stone
#80. Poison is seldom taken in the gross; but, if mingled with food, the mischief is not suspected until it is discovered by the effect.
John Newton
#81. Nobody else suspected that he was going crazy. Everybody else thought he looked fine and was acting fine. Now he was in the hospital. The doctors agreed; He was going crazy.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#82. The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#83. I suspected those people were seeking to make sense of the world by turning her into a cautionary tale, the lesson being, look both ways. And don't be such a bitch.
Stacey Kade
#84. Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.
Laozi
#85. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.
David Levithan
#86. He suspected the workers thought of Serena as beyond gender, the same as they might some phenomenon of nature such as rain or lightning.
Ron Rash
#87. The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
James Thurber
#88. The Fourth Amendment is quite clear on the notion that search and seizure must not be unreasonable. It is difficult to think of something more unreasonable than searching the private phone records and digital information of citizens who are suspected of nothing.
Ben Shapiro
#89. Many had suspected that the political disasters of the past few years had a hidden cause. The bloodiness of the French mob rule was something unnatural, with a pitiless and inhuman progression that had never been seen before.
Mike Jay
#90. ...[Emilio] felt once more the strangely visceral thrill of trying to disprove a hypothesis he suspected was robust.
Mary Doria Russell
#91. We also have to acknowledge that there are Millennials who don't know of the Clintons of the nineties, and we've always suspected that once they found out that ... I mean, Bill Clinton's behavior was celebrated by Democrats in the nineties. Even by the feminazis!
Rush Limbaugh
#92. Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected.
Boris Beizer
#93. Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be
Elizabeth I
#94. A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
Karl Philipp Moritz
#95. There was a time in my demented youth
When somehow I suspected that the truth
About survival after death was known
To every human being: I alone
Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy
Of books and people hid the truth from me.
Vladimir Nabokov
#96. Even back then, I guess, I suspected that sometimes the only available choice in life is to spit on death and run.
Tiffany Baker
#97. Other than hunting down the terrorists responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001, Amerine suspected that the United States had no comprehensive plan, military or otherwise.
Eric Blehm
#98. After I became an attorney, the mother of two girls I'd known in high school came to see me. She'd endured years of heinous abuse from her husband that nearly destroyed her. I'd never suspected a thing.
Harry Reid
#99. Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.
Clara Zetkin
#100. Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.
John Irving
