Unreliable Quotes - Page 6

• One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.

  Philippa Gregory

  Liars, Understanding, World

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• He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. "You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach. “Eleven out of twelve work fine. I’d say that’s better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Trying, Twelve

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.80, Penguin

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• Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Memories, Play, Stories

  Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.

  Chris French

  Intelligence, Eyewitnesses, Testimony

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• 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 doubts on any such trend linkages to global warming.

  Christopher Landsea

  Weather, Doubt, Energy

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• 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 is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

  H. G. Wells

  Passion, Artist, Men

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• 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. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course.

  Charlton Heston

  Silly, Evil, Catholic

  Interview with Ken Masugi and Colleen Ryor, ashbrook.org. October 6, 1995.

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• 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

  Memories

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.221, Granta Books

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• 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 Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Dark, Past

  Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.116, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.

  Josh McDowell

  Literature, Ifs, Antiquity

  "Evidence That Demands a Verdict". Book by Josh McDowell, February 1979.

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• 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

  People, Waiting, Down And

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