“There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only several hundred years ago that we invented something called the microscope. Since then worlds whose existence we did not suspect have become commonplace” PeopleWorldYearsMayOrderSoundExistenceBuddhismHundredYears AgoFilledDimensionsSuspectsPeculiarCommonplaceOther WorldsMicroscopes Author:Frederick Lenz
“I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.” IfsWellsKindMayMightJesusHolyJokesBreathsSpokesSuspectsReluctantParables Author:Frederick Buechner
“As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.” KnowsMayFeelingsActorsInterestLosesKnow HowAchieveEffectsFineLaborWorkersAccidentsGenuineOccasionsRepeatsSuspectsGesturesNot InterestedAgain And AgainAccentsOutburstRare Occasion Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske
“A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.” KnowsMindWellsMayHouseBlackPoorBrainDiseaseMortalsPoisonSuspectsSuspicionPlaguePestilence Book:The Works of Ben Jonson Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
“Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might react to some of the recent industry-backed studies minimizing the dangers of global warming. I suspect future jurors will not be amused.” WayMayDreamMightInterestingStudyImagineDangerIndustryLawyerGlobal WarmingSuspectsJuryAmusedMinimizingJurors Author:David Ignatius
“In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote "teamwork." For its anti-individualistic streak, such a drive is of course highly suspect; some people may not be so sensitive to it, but having seen the Hitlerjugend in action suffices for the rest of your life to be very wary of "team spirit." Very.” PeopleMayActionSpiritCoursesTeamRevolutionPressureSensitiveSuspectsTeamworkRest Of Your LifeRecessionsStreaksTeam SpiritIndividualistic Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs.” PeopleMayCoursesIndividualBeliefOpinionPrinciplesInformationStrangeUltimateAbsolutesConclusionPrivacySuspectsGovernorsFreedom Of SpeechTestingAbsolute FreedomOpinions And Beliefs Author:William O. Douglas