Top 100 Quotes About Insidious
#1. She said that whenever she feels the old insidious chill of loneliness beginning to creep back into her life, she picks up the phone and calls someone who may be lonelier than she is.
Norman Vincent Peale
#2. Very good. But your most insidious chronic problem is in the area of . . . how shall I put this precisely . . . subordination. You argue too much." "No, I don't," Miles began indignantly, then shut his mouth.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#3. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. - Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States (1928)
Jane Mayer
#5. My hair has been this chapter thing for me. In 'Jem,' I have blue hair. 'Insidious,' it's pink. In 'CSI,' I have blonde. I love changing my hair. It's just hair and it grows all the time.
Hayley Kiyoko
#6. Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
Pierce Brosnan
#7. 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 promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
Ray Bradbury
#8. The voice without a body went on singing, and certainly Raoul had never in his life heard anything more absolutely and heroically sweet, more gloriously insidious, more powerful.
Gaston Leroux
#9. Ah, but you're the insidious type
Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.
Dodie Smith
#10. But these days the demons are more insidious; they're the everyday annoyances, the little things that suck away our potential to do big things.
Jocelyn K. Glei
#11. Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
Terence McKenna
#12. Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire!
Gaston Bachelard
#13. The kind of juvenile story I like best to write
and read, too, for the matter of that
is a good, jolly one, "art for art's sake," or rather "fun for fun's sake," with no insidious moral hidden away in it like a pill in a spoonful of jam!
L.M. Montgomery
#14. But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.
Pat Summerall
#15. The outrageous madonna/whore duality that we mock in Women's Studies 101 has its subtle, and very insidious, expression in the good/bad mother paradigm that we grapple with every day of our lives.
Shannon Drury
#16. Look at what you've done,' Sanguine said, shaking his head with mock severity. 'You have foiled out insidious little plot. You have emerged triumphant and victorious. Curse you, do-gooders. Curse you.
Derek Landy
#17. Depression, in its insidious way, acts as a degenerative disease, harming nerve cells. Like
Peter D. Kramer
#18. The most insidious thing about bondage was how easy it was to grow accustomed to it.
George R R Martin
#19. For the patient who remained hospitalized a long time, an insidious metamorphosis took place - the outside world dimmed and faded like a watercolor exposed to the sun, while the hospital became the center and the only real part of the universe.
Marjorie Kellogg
#20. Trust is the most insidious of poisons. Trust sidesteps all of your precautions.
Mark Lawrence
#21. In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
Joseph Epstein
#22. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#23. Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice.
Donna Lynn Hope
#24. What's insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they'd say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us
Jeff Jarvis
#25. Habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
Diane Ackerman
#26. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.
Nick Hanauer
#27. I was never afraid of getting killed and I was never afraid of losing my nerve. My kind of courage holds up best under fire; it's different dangers, more refined and insidious ones, that shake me.
Tana French
#28. The greatest dangers to liberty," said Mr. Brandeis, "lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
E.B. White
#29. It occurred to him that there were many forms of poison, the most insidious being the poison of words. [...] It was a poison with no easy antidote.
Scott Oden
#30. The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
Dambisa Moyo
#31. His mind, under the influence of that insidious mildew which eventually forms on all but the few, gave itself up furiously to every indignation of the age.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#32. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence ... the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.
George Washington
#33. That was years ago. I've learned my lessons well and played my role. No longer willing to be a victim, today I'm insidious.
Aleatha Romig
#34. A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.
Wangechi Mutu
#35. Open avowal of dictatorship is much less dangerous than sham democracy. The first one can fight; sham democracy is insidious.
Wilhelm Reich
#36. Love you," Maya says. "Yes, she keeps saying that," A.J. says. "I warned her about giving love that hasn't yet been earned, but honestly, I think it's the influence of that insidious Elmo. He loves everyone, you know?
Gabrielle Zevin
#37. Charm of the most insidious kind: humorous, self-deprecating, and disarmingly frank and confiding.
Loretta Chase
#38. It opened every part of her and made her belong to him, it was quiet and it was insidious and it was strong and flaming and it had dwelt within her so long that she could not refuse it any longer... It was Jake.
Only Jake.
Leigh Bristol
#39. Look, it also attempts to poison our children, divide them from their parents and the teaching of the church and basically turn them into pawns for that movement so that they can sexualize them at the earliest possible age. It really is insidious and I agree with you, it is a super sin.
E.W. Jackson
#40. There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.
Kevin DeYoung
#41. Addiction is an insidious disease that's always lurking nearby like a snake ready to strike.
Lou Gramm
#42. Success, while it may provide encouragement, build confidence, and be joyful indeed, often teaches an insidious lesson - to have too high an opinion of self.
Anonymous
#43. Self-censorship is the most insidious form of censorship.
Marty Rubin
#44. We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#45. The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses.
Teju Cole
#46. Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.
Jimmy Stewart
#47. Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word.
Claudia Rankine
#48. I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.
Richard Dawkins
#49. There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a mere athlete, probably spoilt by all the publicity and fame, dare aspire to neurology? But I'd done a lot of research, and my academic record was very good.
Roger Bannister
#50. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.
Mortimer J. Adler
#51. The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.
Maya Angelou
#52. Los Angeles can never be convinced to fight fair, but the town has an insidious way of tempting back its most devoted followers.
Jennifer Harrison
#53. 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 or a girl, but at least I'm not Gay or Black or a Jew." Meaning: I may be me- but at least I have the good sense not to be YOU.
Chuck Palahniuk
#54. I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.
James Rollins
#55. If Verity's sins were knives, quick and vicious, then Prosperity's were poison. Slow, insidious, but just as deadly.
Victoria Schwab
#56. Case - a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious.
Timothy Ferriss
#57. Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.
Lebbeus Woods
#58. Things must be done, life must go on. Life would go on, even if every breath she took hurt, even if her joints ached when she moved. Sorry and loneliness were an insidious evil, for they lived in the mind. One could not take a tonic and see them dissipate.
Kristen Callihan
#59. Tyrants are obvious, and easy to identify. It is the well entrenched and corrupt establishment that is truly insidious.
A.E. Samaan
#60. All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.
Terence McKenna
#61. What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.
Stuart Bowen
#62. We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.
Robert Greene
#63. I needed cutting now the way a diabetic needs insulin. It was a bulwark, steady and unyielding, I could throw up against the insidious, corrosive lapping of a whispering sea of uneasiness.
Caroline Kettlewell
#64. There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.
Tom Robbins
#65. Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.
Margaret Cho
#66. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
Alan Moore
#67. My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.
Lynda Obst
#68. Life has its insidious way of crawling its way back into your sphere and you're dumbed down again by so many distractions including work obligations, social niceties and mountains of clothes washing.
Josh Langley
#69. The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#70. The pain does grow less acute, but the insidious palace lie that we will get over crushing losses means that our emotional GPS can never find true north, as it is based on maps that no longer mention the most important places we have been to.
Anne Lamott
#71. How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
Albert Einstein
#72. The familiar tactic of smearing conservatism by linking it with fascism is one such abuse. A less noticed, but perhaps more insidious, practice of the left is to subtly adjust the image of fascism to make it seem more "conservative" than it actually was.
Alan J. Levine Levine
#73. It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
Aberjhani
#74. One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense ...
Calvin Coolidge
#75. (in regards to watches) They were such insidious little machines- always there to pressure you, to make you fixate on what was next instead of taking pleasure in what was now. To remind you that your time was slowly, inevitable running out.
Kyle Mills
#76. But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.
Jacob Neusner
#78. W. Bush's life is a case study in the insidious affirmative action for the rich.
Chris Hedges
#79. We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories ... for now, but not forever.
Jennifer Beals
#80. There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit ...
Helen Keller
#81. I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.
George H. W. Bush
#82. The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.
Natalie Angier
#83. We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects ...
Mitsuye Yamada
#84. The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.
Salman Rushdie
#85. You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#86. Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
Seneca.
#87. I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
Pankaj Mishra
#88. I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
Feist
#89. It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from writing my biography of Winston Churchill - that short, strong words work better. I am ever-vigilant against the passive and against jargon, both of which are so insidious.
Gretchen Rubin
#90. It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.
Pope John Paul II
#91. I suspect that a greater and more insidious influence [than violence in movies] may lie in what they tell us about being in love, and how to conduct ourselves while in that condition.
David Thomson
#92. The mainstream media in America has become an insidious device of ignorance.
They not only shape the story, but now participate. For what?
Jonathan Heatt
#93. Recognizing sexism is harder than it once was. Like the micro-aggressions that people of color endure daily - racism masked as subtle insults or dismissals - today's sexism is insidious, casual, politically correct, even friendly. It
Jessica Bennett
#94. Might-have-been are insidious, aren't they, in the way they don't ever quite lie still or go away.
Patrick Gale
#95. 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
#96. These are the insidious monsters in our heads making us do ourselves in.
Chris Shelton
#97. North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.
Franz Grillparzer
#98. Nature had come into her own again and, little by little, in her stealthy, insidious way had encroached upon the drive with long, tenacious fingers.
Daphne Du Maurier
#99. 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 Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.
Albert Ellis
#100. The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
Denis Diderot
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