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“One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress in the first term knows you'll be out there in the next campaign with them, .. Your motives are always a little more suspect when you don't have to face the voters again.”

Knows Firsts Littles Faces Certain Next Term Loses Challenges Amount Congress Campaigns Administration Motive Suspects Voters Identification

Author:Roy Blunt

“STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark reflections. It's one of the better single-author collections I've had the pleasure to read in recent years, and as such, gets my highest recommendation. It's also a fine testament to a talent I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot more from, and soon.”

“True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.”

Heart Stills Hours Dignity Silent Suspects Inward Lowliness

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

“I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling.”

Writing Kind Fun Bits Suspects Hateful

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself in the eyes of the bourgeois of the sin of writing, for literature is, in essence, heresy. The situation has not changed except that it is now the Communists, that is, the qualified representatives of the proletariat, who as a matter of principle regard the writer as suspect.”

“In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to [by both] the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.”

Source: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New

“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.”

People May Action Spirit Courses Team Revolution Pressure Sensitive Suspects Teamwork Rest Of Your Life Recessions Streaks Team Spirit Individualistic

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it is a coward's argument. Nobody but a coward would consciously choose to live in a fool's paradise. When a man suspects his wife of infidelity, he is not thought the better of for shutting his eyes to the evidence. And I cannot see why ignoring evidence should be contemptible in one case and admirable in the other.”

People Men Should Would Be Eye Cases Wife Fool Evidence Argument Unhappy Paradise His Eyes Suspects Coward Infidelity Consolation Admirable

Book:Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

“I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon , at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mère. I know nothing of the mother of Attila , but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims.”

Knows Men World Littles Sometimes Mother Found Father Felt Doubt He Man Filled Terror Chiefs Suspects Darling Pirate Whim Irritating Retrospective Spoilt

Book:Power: A New Social Analysis

Source: Power: A New Social Analysis

“I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land.”

Thinking Men Writing Matter Faces Written Land Definitions Suspects Pens Strokes Signatures Chopping

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“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.”

“Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space , and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith . They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”

May Doe Religious Space Race Attitude Events Regret Bears Truth Is Intelligent Foundation Contact Logical Suspects Examination Religious Faith Crossings Collision

Book:By Space Possessed

Source: By Space Possessed

Men Enjoy Command Suspects Popularity Suspicious Attainment Validity

Book:The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon

Source: The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon

“As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.”

Facts Artist Suspects Fascinated Decline Facts Of Life

Author:Martin Parr

“There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.”

Humans Art Real Moments Character Lying Human Beings Darkness Lovely Decent Suspects Glimpse Twisted Affirming Life Affirming

Author:Martin McDonagh

“We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.”

Ifs Years Ideas Hard Feelings Might Guy Natural Evolution Sight Ghost Sensitive Suspects Bus Predator Uneasy Perfectly Natural Bus Stops Uneasy Feelings

Author:Seth Shostak

“So what do people see when they read that well-behaved women rarely make history? Do they imagine good-time girls in stiletto heels or do-good girls carrying clipboards and passing petitions? Do they envision an out-of-control hobbyist or a single mother taking down a drunk in a bar? I suspect that it depends on where they stand themselves.”

Source: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.”

Strong Emotion Doubt Possibility Conscious Impression Suspects Horizon Self-examination

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Art Stills Happens Used Pleasure Quality Too Much Failing Discovery Sight Merit Faculty Suspects Works Of Art

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They'll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with fast, low-quality information. The result won't be a library without books--it'll be a library without value.”

Children Book Dream Values Lines Results Quality Information Comfortable Computer Lows Claims Library Budgets Suspects Scholar Addict Librarian Hallucinations Insiders Adept Automation

Author:Clifford Stoll

“The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so many that I suspect they are never the same in any two cases. It includes passion but does not survive by passion; it has its whiffs of the agreeable vertigo of young love, but it is stable more often than dizzy; it is a growing, changing thing, and it is tactful enough to give the addicted parties occasional rests from strong and exhausting feeling of any kind.”

“A large number of suspects, both men and women, escaped martial law for lack of any shred of evidence against them on which a court-martial could convict. So they began setting them free in groups, according to their birth-place. But half-way, the car-load would be emptied into a ditch.”

Men Way Would Be Law Numbers Half Groups Car Birth Evidence Men And Women Court Setting Settings Suspects Load Large Numbers Convicts Half Way Birth Place Martial Law

Author:Georges Bernanos

“Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero.”

Thinking Knows Mean Mother Turns Father Tvs Listening Suspects Zero No Respect No One Listening Less Than Zero

Author:Elvis Costello

“Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.”

Source: There's a Country in My Cellar

“If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me a convert of mountain-moving fervor and that I shall suddenly grow long earlocks and learn Hebrew and go about denouncing the heathen - you little know the effect of the Bible on me. Properly read, it is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”

Ifs Knows Littles Long Moving Force Grows Interest Atheism Effects Inspire Mountain Enthusiasm Suspects Judaism Hebrew Heathen Fervor

Author:Isaac Asimov

“I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race.”

Ifs Giving Mind Humans Persons Made Race Havens Giving Up Deserve Decided Sticks Bread Human Race Treatment Suspects Conventions Puddles Geneva Geneva Convention

Book:Assassination Vacation

Source: Assassination Vacation

“I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.”

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

“The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality - which became America's - was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect.”

People Men America Pleasure Results Morality Code Suspects Puritan Whirlwind

Author:Hugh Hefner

“Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn't get all its oil from OPEC.”

Ifs Men States Girl Nations United Boys United States Emotional Oil Contact Suspects Powerless Homophobia Sissy Opec

Author:Warren Farrell

“Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth as readily as the truth. That is, as soon as he can suspect that it will be to his advantage; and the dread that he afterward has of telling a lie is acquired principally by his being threatened, punished, and terrified by those who detect him in it, till at length, a number of painful impressions are annexed to the telling of an untruth, and he comes even to shudder at the thought of it.”

Children Lying Numbers Crime Advantage Definitions Painful Impression Temptation Length Suspects Dread Terrified Threatened Variation Liable Untruth

Book:The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt

Source: The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt

“It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to which it may be reduced, are nowhere laid down, or asserted, in the Scriptures, but others quite contrary to them.”

May Contrary Scripture Doctrine Suspects Maxims Atonement

Book:A History of the Corruptions of Christianity

Source: A History of the Corruptions of Christianity

“There is a limitation on debate, which is unlike other bills, for 20 hours, but there is no limitation on amendments. In other words, Republicans if they wanted to, and I suspect they do, could offer literally thousands of amendments and keep Senate in session for weeks and months.”

Ifs Wanted Hours Week Months Republican Offers Bills Debate Limitation Suspects Senate Amendments Session

Author:Rick Santorum

“Regardless of its purpose, the humpback-whale song is the most complex piece of nonhuman composition on earth. Whether it's art, prayer, or booty call, the humpback song is an amazing thing to experience firsthand, and I suspect that even once the science of it is put to bed, it will remain, as long as they sing, magic.”

Long Art Earth Purpose Song Prayer Pieces Magic Bed Complexes Suspects Composition Amazing Things Whales Booty Humpback Whales

Author:Christopher Moore

“I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two legs, with long limbs, hair, claw-like fingernails and lupine head. To me there's nothing scary about complete transformation from human into wolf. Wolves aren't scary. They're dangerous, yes, but so are geese, in the wrong mood. What's scary is seeing the human in the wolf but knowing it's beyond the reach of reason or emotional appeal. That's where the horror and dread kicks in.”

“I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.”

Life Suspects

Book:Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

Source: Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

“I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.”

People Years Might Happens Months Suspects No Fear Fear Of Death Have No Fear Before Death

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Smoking marijuana, as long as you leave the nicotine out of it, is certainly no more damaging than having a drink, and I suspect better for you than having a drink.”

Long Drink Smoking Suspects Marijuana Nicotine

Author:Richard Branson

“Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.”

“Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques is true?”

Knows Said Used Enemy Offers Gains Historical Terror Technique Administration Fantastic Irony Torture Suspects Confession Mccain Vietnamese

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.”

Littles Doe Facts Use Dies Force Doubt Failing Late Sight Police Threat Killing Harm No Doubt Justify Suspects Officers Unfortunate Felony Deadly Force

Author:Byron White

“I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not all of it but much of it - is felt in the course of playing around with form.”

Way Believe Play Feelings Form Artist Courses I Believe Felt Emotion Productive Suspects Playing Around

Author:Carter Ratcliff

“I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly!”

Thinking Duty Conscience Missions Evolve Engaged Suspects Personal Mission

Author:Jan Theuninck

“When I was little I knew my father had been an orphan and had lived in an orphanage. I was curious, but my father wouldn't satisfy my curiosity. He told only one story about the orphanage, and that was of sneaking out and buying candy, which he sold to other orphans. He said he had a pretty good business going - till he was busted! I guess he told that anecdote because he was the hero of it and I suspect he was rarely the hero as a child, more often the victim. There's a photo of the actual orphanage on my website, and you can see it's a forbidding looking place.”

Children Littles Said Stories Father Hero Victim Curiosity Curious Buying Suspects Candy Website Orphan Anecdotes Good Business Orphanage Busted Sneaking Out

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“The universe has its secrets. Extra dimensions of space might be one of them. If so, the universe has been hiding those dimensions, protecting them, keeping them coyly under wraps. From a casual glance, you would never suspect a thing.”

Ifs Has Beens Might Universe Space Secret Extras Dimensions Suspects Hiding Glances Wraps Casual

Book:Warped passages: unravelling the universe's hidden dimensions

Source: Warped passages: unravelling the universe's hidden dimensions

“I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.”

Art Activity Rate Suspects Second Rate

Author:Jack Vance

“I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed with cancer, would prefer that any resources that would be spent on PVS care be reallocated to cancer research - or some similar enterprise that has the potential to help human beings who might actually recover.”

People Humans Ends States Helping Might Would Be Care Human Beings Knowing Research Resources Majority Cancer Enterprise Suspects Not Knowing Cancer Research

Author:Jacob M. Appel

“He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again.”

Ifs Poor Lord Suspects Pagan Patriarch

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“If people want consultative government, the price is increased complexity and delay in arriving at decisions. If they want speed of government, then they must accept a greater degree of authoritarianism. I suspect that the real answer is that most people prefer the latter so long, that is, as government's decisions conform with their own views.”

“It's been by turns frustrating and fascinating and wonderful beyond imagination. If what I suspect is true, it's one of the most important milestones in human history to acknowledge that we are not alone in the universe.”

Ifs Humans Important Turns Universe Imagination Wonderful Acknowledge Fascinating Suspects Frustrating Human History Not Alone Milestone

Author:Steven M. Greer

“My take on what happened with the moon landing was [......] they suspect [ sic ] that on impact that the cameras would be damaged because back in 1969 cameras weren't, you know, like they are today, as good. So they had a studio set up at CBS to mimic the moon landing. And sure enough the cameras broke and so they flipped, you know, the CBS studio on. And what you saw of the footage of the '69 moon landing was actually at CBS studio.”

Knows Enough Would Be Today Saws Happened Moon Cameras Impact Studios Broke Suspects Landing Flipped Moon Landing

Author:Kent Hovind

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