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The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts. — James Surowiecki
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring. — Margaret Atwood
The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be… — Terry Goodkind
Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl. — Dodie Smith
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes. — Thomas Hardy
...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries; that we who… — Marcus Luttrell
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and… — Ray Bradbury
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. — Alan Moore
I killed your friends.” – Abigail “And I’m not happy about that. But your head wasn’t screwed on right. It’s easy to let the enemies… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, "I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips… — Chuck Palahniuk
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:… — John Green
In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression… — Anthony Bourdain
David Foster Wallace: I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re dumb. This is all you can do. This… — David Lipsky
It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my world was run,… — Joss Whedon
Fenworth nodded. "Yes, yes. Urgent, deadly, insidious. The world is in peril and we must rise against evil." The old wizard released the general and… — Donita K. Paul
And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all. — Elie Wiesel
The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion… — Alan Greenspan
This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even… — Albert Ellis
The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics -… — Rebecca MacKinnon
Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the… — Rebecca MacKinnon
Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life. — Pierce Brosnan
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. — Samuel P. Huntington
The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and… — Emile M. Cioran

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