The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.
I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.
I think she suspects something, though. We’ve had cherry pie for dessert five nights in a row. ” His voice drawled, and my smile deepened.
No one suspects the days to be gods.
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.
I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.
I generally avoid over-population arguments. But there's no question we're in population overshoot. The catch is we're not going to do anything about it. There will be no policy. The usual suspects: starvation, war, disease, will drive the population down. There's little more to say about that really, and it's certainly an unappetizing discussion, but it's probably the truth. In any case, we're in overshoot and we face vast resource scarcities.
I had to battle it out with all the usual suspects and whatnot and go to the callback. I was lucky that (writer-director) John (Levine) and I were sort of these two white-boy hip-hop-heads from New York. I think that alone got me in the door.
Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.
When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.
I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning
There were 15 terrorists, We killed 3 suspects, building collapsed on 5. All of them are dead.
