Dubious Quotes · Page 2

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

— George Eliot

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

— Ben Hecht

“Sometimes are feats aren’t so fabulous, they’re just dubious—but either way, they’re fun to talk about.”

— Tucker Elliot

Lampooning racism by reproducing brazenly racist imagery is a pretty dubious satirical tactic.

— Mehdi Hasan

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

— Wallace Stegner

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

— John Walford

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a…

— Anonymous

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

— George Eliot

I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate c hange.…

— Craig F. Bohren

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

— Lytton Strachey

My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle…

— Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious…

— Helen Thomas

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the…

— Arthur Ashe

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is…

— J. M. Coetzee

To some degree, I was very dubious of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' idea - taking a theme park ride and turning…

— Peter Jackson

There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When…

— Natalie Goldberg

That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face…

— Daniel Okrent

I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others,…

— Alice Walker

Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check…

— Ben Goldacre

The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled…

— Fritz Leiber

What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious…

— William James

Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity…

— Jon Krakauer

There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native…

— Sherman Alexie

“She said, What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know an hurt you very much.”

— Margaret Atwood

I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be…

— Sherman Alexie

“Marcus was depressingly certain that there wasn't a Dubious Person within a thousand miles.”

— Vivian French

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

— Robert Brustein

If e-wallet providers are unregulated, dubious operators will easily manage to avoid audit trails and electronic finger-prints.

— Sucheta Dalal

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

— Eleanor Antin

“And he felt dubious and discontented suddenly, and wondered whether he was really and truly successful as a human being.”

— E. M. Forster

Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.

— Rory Stewart

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

— George Eliot

“It is of the dubious inevitable side of human nature—like gold teeth and tinned salmon and bastard lacy valentines”

— Mary MacLane

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.

— Julian Barnes

I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.

— Xiaolu Guo

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea…

— Dick Cavett

“Woe betides anyone getting in the way of people that keep on muddying the waters, throwing up smoke screens and clouding issues,…

— Erik Pevernagie

Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?' Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It’s…

— Martha Wells