Unreliable Quotes

95 quotes by 95 authors

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work. — Nick Cave
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. — Leonard Cohen
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be… — Hannah Arendt
Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort… — Sri Yukteswar Giri
I hide my true feelings to avoid causing you trouble or pain, I act strong to show you that I'm not unreliable, I hold my… — Harriet Morgan
[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what… — David Quammen
Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to… — James Bovard
Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe… — Christopher Landsea
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It… — H.G. Wells
Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable.… — Charlton Heston
Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals. — Anna Funder
Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor. — Terry Pratchett
If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable. — J D Salinger
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating. — Ashleigh Brilliant
Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like… — George Saunders
Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable. — Dalai Lama
Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the… — Paramahansa Yogananda

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