The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb 'return' a kind of… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality. — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action… — Margaret Case Harriman Copy Share Image
The first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries;… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
When I directed the third 'Insidious' film I loved it so much that I decided this is what I want to do… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, "I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in… — William Banting Copy Share Image
Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
In junior high I read a lot of Stephen King, whose Americana approach to writing was often about "the terror next door"… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
We may as well face the fact, and face it squarely, that we are too much governed. The agencies of government have… — Roland H. Hartley Copy Share Image
Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and… — Edward Bates Copy Share Image
Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the… — Pat Summerall Copy Share Image
Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the… — James F. Bell, III Copy Share Image
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think if you went to a studio and pitched the first 'Insidious,' it never would have gotten made because it was… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“four o’clock the daylight was already curling insidious fingers round the edges of the curtains in his bedroom. He” — Benjamin Black Copy Share Image
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
“Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
