S Quotes
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“Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.”
“Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.”
“Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.”
“Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.”
“Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side.”
“Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.”
“Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.”
Source: Sight Unseen/The Confession
“Suspicion is most often useless pain.”
“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.”
Source: A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments
“Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.”
Source: The age of suspicion: essays on the novel
“Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.”
“Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.”
“Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.”
Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion
“Suspicion is the greatest enemy of love whether it is true or not.”
“Suspicion is very often a useless pain.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“Suspicion, like superstition, is something fear-fueled - for the former is a sort of death, firing at the natural, while the latter is a life frozen by the supernatural.”
“Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face.”
“Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.”
“Suspicion often creates what it suspects.”
Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
“Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.”
“Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“Suspicion," he said. "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He's a genius." "Starring Cary Grant." When Lucas gave me a look, I added, "You have your priorities, I have mine.”
“Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but the only one who can end the worst of its abuses is you. Call your representatives and tell them that the unconstitutional 'bulk collection' of Americans' private records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act must end.”
“Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes
“Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.”
Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln
“Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Suspicious we are, we men who walk the earth.”
Source: The odyssey
“Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?”
Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“Sustain a bright and joyful spirit.”
“Sustain joy by anchoring yourself with gratitude.”
“Sustainability and growth must coexist. Look at nature: things only sustain themselves when they continually grow. Growth is a prerequisite for sustainability.”
“Sustainability-as-a-Service is a service, to the planet and the people; for the prospect of both.”
Source: SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service
“Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain.”
“Sustainability doesn't mean limiting yourself, it means liberating yourself from the prehistoric chains of divisionism and from the modern chains of materialism.”
Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“Sustainability financing (SusFin) isn't just an investment; it's a down payment on a planet where profit and purpose are inextricably linked, ensuring that prosperity is shared, not plundered.”
Source: Responsible Financing
“Sustainability has become a religion in architecture - not that there's anything wrong with it - but I think it has to work both ways. Everyone thinks architecture has to be subservient to sustainability, but what if we thought in the other direction, like, what can sustainability do to make architecture more exciting?”
“Sustainability has become an ornament.”
“Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be”
“Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?”
“Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely”
Source: The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World
“Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century”
“Sustainability is about the quality and quantity of oxygen and water to be gifted to future generations.”
Source: SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service
“Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations. It can also be expressed in the simple terms of an economic golden rule for the restorative economy: Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do.”
“Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.”
Source: A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity
“Sustainability is circular, so should be the services.”
Source: SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service
“Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend”
“Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be”
“Sustainability is justifiability of usage of resources, for oneself and others, at present, for future.”
Source: SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service
“Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.”