Unconfirmed Quotes

#1. The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of their political cares.

Alexander Hamilton

#2. How about we meet tomorrow at Von's Gym, 6 A.M.?" I'd heard rumors that such an hour of the morning existed, but thus far it had been unconfirmed.

Jeff Strand

#3. You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

Gary Sinise

#4. God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Izaak Walton

#5. Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters.

Kristin Cashore

#6. The felt presence of immediate experience
this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

Terence McKenna

#7. Unconfirmed suspicion tends, over time, to become willful, fallacious, and prey to the vicissitudes of mood - it acquires all the qualities of common superstition - and

Eleanor Catton

#8. Bright light put me in a trance, but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance.

Bradley Nowell

#9. Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

Edmund Hillary

#10. What?" he asked. "You're staring at me funny."
"We're in the wrong movie," I confessed.

Lou Harper

#11. You have to decide when it is time to move on.

Wendy Whelan

#12. I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.

Lea Salonga

#13. Unlike novels with a hero or two heroines, in 'One Amazing Thing,' all the characters tell stories they've never told anyone before, so all the voices become equally important.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#14. Information ... exhausts itself in the staging of meaning ... [and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy

Jean Baudrillard

#15. We have received unconfirmed reports out of our embassy in Amman in Jordan that two Indonesian nationals, or precisely two Indonesian reporters ... have been taken away by armed individuals,

Marty Natalegawa

#16. Why was it that whenever I started to not detest him, he did something like this?

Catherine Clark

#17. Our young men in Vietnam have not only acquitted themselves in an outstanding manner during combat operations, but they also have been outstanding ambassadors of goodwill in the vital civic action and pacification work among the tortured populace of South Vietnam.

Lewis William Walt