Top 100 Quotes About Unreliable
#1. After trying several unreliable web site hosts, I signed up with NitroTek and was pleased to discover there is a reliable, easy to work with service available to individuals and companies who want to keep a solid presence on the net. NitroTtek is a helpful, no-hassles company to work with.
Lesley Choyce
#2. But aunties are equivocal figures of affection, wicked and unreliable, pretending love only so long as they are short of love themselves, and then off.
Howard Jacobson
#3. With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.
Robert Walser
#4. Jesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable.
John Robbins
#5. Perhaps this was the greatest genius of the cyber jihadis: the monopoly they clinched on information. They realized how helplessly addicted the population had become to knowing in this information age. So what if news was tainted or unreliable? - people needed their daily fix.
Manil Suri
#6. Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
Gertrude Stein
#8. New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say.
P. J. O'Rourke
#9. Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams
James Grissom
#10. Why not add another yarn? That's all we are in the end, any of us, a couple of dozen unreliable stories.
Iain Sinclair
#11. Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.
Janusz Korczak
#12. I am a man of my word ... and that word is unreliable.
Demetri Martin
#13. The historian, on the contrary, cannot experiment and can rarely observe. Instead, the historian has to collect his own evidence, knowing, all the while, that some of it is useless and much of it unreliable.
-Professor Charles Homer Haskins
Jill Lepore
#14. What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Lillian Hellman
#15. Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them.
P.D. Ouspensky
#16. Words alone were ambiguous, unreliable. But what could be reliable, if not words
Julianne Donaldson
#17. People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.
Nido R. Qubein
#18. But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don't share it there's a good chance that it will drive them apart instead. Maybe
Fredrik Backman
#19. When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.
Jeffrey Kluger
#21. But we must understand that emotions are unreliable and at times, tyrannical. They should never be permitted to dominate us.
James C. Dobson
#22. 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
#23. Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
Malcolm Gladwell
#24. I think these drugs could just as well be called Durkheimogens, given their unique (though unreliable) ability to shut down the self and give people experiences they later describe as "religious" or
Jonathan Haidt
#25. Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.
Gene Tierney
#26. How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.
Karl Kraus
#27. While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#28. Most of the things that "everybody knows" are wrong. The rest are merely unreliable.
Batman
Neil Gaiman
#29. Maybe their sorrow over children that never came should have brought the two men closer. But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don't share it there's a good chance that it will drive them apart instead.
Fredrik Backman
#30. What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things.
Martin Buber
#31. If the banks become unreliable lenders, apartment prices will drop dramatically.
Harry Triguboff
#32. He had the sourdough smell of age. His chest sagged into shrivelled teats; his lovemaking was unreliable, yet she found it strangely wholesome in a way that defied sense.
Richard Flanagan
#33. 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
#34. So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.
Gilbert Ryle
#35. I'm starting to think that pure truth is impossible, and that all narrators and all people are at least a little unreliable.
Susan Juby
#36. The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.
Sonia Sotomayor
#37. his memories from this period were something slightly blur-edged and unreliable,
Hanya Yanagihara
#39. Narrators are often unreliable, and part of the reader's pleasure is figuring out what's really true. The
Lisa Cron
#40. If you're looking for a story about nice people doing nice things, this isn't for you. You will be burdened with an unreliable narrator who will disappoint and repel you at every turn.
Still with me?
Too bad for you.
I can't wait to break your heart.
Christopher Buehlman
#41. Don't doubt your faith; doubt your doubts for they are unreliable.
T. B. Joshua
#42. I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.
Anne Fadiman
#43. Seventy-five percent of all Americans believe that angels are real. Which is amazing when you consider that forty percent of all Americans think DNA evidence is unreliable.
Richard Jeni
#44. They appear somewhat unreliable," he murmured.
"Unreliable? Nonsense, Superior! Out of luck is all, and we both know how that goes, no? Why, there's not a man of them I wouldn't trust my mother to."
"Are you sure?"
"She's been dead these twenty years. What harm could they do her now?
Joe Abercrombie
#45. My memory of that day is like television itself, sharp and clear but unreliable.
Wally Lamb
#46. People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.
Leonora Carrington
#47. 19Putting confidence in an unreliable person in times of trouble is like chewing with a broken tooth or walking on a lame foot.
Anonymous
#48. While we have very serious problems with the universe, it is most illogical and most stupid to make wars among ourselves! Let there be peace on earth so that we can fight with the real enemy: The ever-changing unreliable universe!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#49. I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already.
Anthony Bourdain
#50. You are unreliable, Flavia,' he said. 'Utterly unreliable.'
Of course I was! It was one of the things I loved most about myself.
Alan Bradley
#51. It's because in this vast world of unreliable people, he is the one I know I can rely on.
Jamie Kain
#52. 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
#53. Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.
Will Rogers
#54. With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.
Criss Jami
#55. We're going to have robots in the home, but they're not going to be walking. Legs are complicated, unreliable and costly. Robots are going to look and be designed to meet the function they're supposed to perform. People will still name them and connect with them.
Colin Angle
#57. 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 moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion.
Hannah Arendt
#58. Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us.
If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.
Dean Koontz
#59. The dead are notoriously unreliable when it comes to standards of behavior," I said. "Particularly murder victims. They have no sense of decorum at all.
Tasha Alexander
#60. I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a Ouija board.
Emma Cline
#61. 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 all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#62. I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know themselves to be revealing. We all do that.
Rob Roberge
#63. Enduring happiness was only possible with equanimity. As long as our happiness depended on circumstances, it would be as fleeting and unreliable as the events themselves.
David Michie
#64. The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.
Jack Ma
#65. Wikipedia was the single most unreliable source of knowledge this side of The National Enquirer.
Paul Combs
#66. The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#67. All his novels are unreliable gospels for those who can't be sure of a thing.
Pico Iyer
#68. Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.
John Piper
#69. You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
Idries Shah
#70. You winked, took the change. I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead, I saw it as a sign of charming, which is why I didn't break it off right then and there.
Daniel Handler
#71. Or, rather, you irritate everyone, Curdle. Because you're so unreliable.'
'I'm not always unreliable, Telorast.
Steven Erikson
#72. Shit and piss and trash were thrown from windows to the distant street until rain came to wash them away, and like plants in rich soil, the unstable, unreliable buildings rose, driven by the deep human desire to be the one least shat upon.
George R R Martin
#73. They were the same height and weight, and could wear each other's clothes. But Lev had charm by the ton. He was unreliable and selfish, and he lived on the edge of the law, but women adored him. Grigori was honest and dependable, a hard worker and a serious thinker, and he was single. It would
Ken Follett
#74. First impressions are like South American dictators: overly powerful and unreliable.
A. J. Jacobs
#76. If you have been told that you are late and unreliable more than once, then not only do you lack punctuality, but you also lack decency and seriousness, which is certainly very annoying.
Auliq Ice
#77. Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced ... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
Charles Stanley
#79. A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Leonard Cohen
#80. The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are still unreliable and where security and advancing of the free democratic order still depend significantly on the possession and use of military might.
Stephen Harper
#81. 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
#82. The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.
Ezra Pound
#83. Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B, then C will occur. This rarely happens if you inject the inefficiences of humanity into the process.
David Baldacci
#84. Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.
Lou Ferrigno
#85. Psychoanalysis seemed an expensive, slow working, unreliable tranquilizer. If LSD were really to do what
Alpert and Leary claimed for it, all psychiatrists would be out of a job overnight.
Luke Rhinehart
#86. Each time, Lippmann would talk a mile a minute, and Danny and Vinny would stare in wonder. Their meetings acquired the flavor of a postmodern literary puzzle: The story rang true even as the narrator seemed entirely unreliable.
Michael Lewis
#87. Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.
Helen Hanson
#88. I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls.
Sebastian Coe
#89. Automobiles are unreliable and dangerous slaves. They frequently revolt and kill their masters. I hate them.
Michael D. O'Brien
#90. In her experience cowboys were notoriously unreliable, generally unfaithful, and rarely capable of settling at all.
Victoria Vane
#91. The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
Paul Bloom
#92. I sighed again, "Because she was inconsistent and unreliable and was the female version of a Wendell."
He openly considered me, his beautiful lips twisting to the side, "A Wendette?
Penny Reid
#93. Now this faith, the apostle declares, is indispensable in order to please God. No wonder; anything less is to treat God as if He were unreal and unreliable, and is practical atheism. It is to make His Word less sure than a mere material fact of nature
A.B. Simpson
#94. To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.
Jakob Nielsen
#95. Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality.
T.A. Barron
#96. We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some ideals, but we also need to protect ourselves from the miscalculations and misadventures of visionaries.
Paul Kurtz
#97. How confusing. Could it be that our narrator is unreliable? No such chance. Mind like a steel trap, I have.
Daniel Handler
#98. Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.
Darin Strauss
#99. Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?
Sigmund Freud
#100. Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future ...
Bill Gates
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