Dubious Quotes

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The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of Americans from the dubious blessings of Christianity.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and dubious loyalty.

Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.

The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid immigrants of often dubious legal status.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical rules seems even more dubious.

He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.

I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.

Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.

Information obtained under dubious circumstances cannot play a role in legal proceedings in a constitutional state. But everything that's available must be taken into account in threat prevention.

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.

in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.

Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

So, Beav, tell me about yourself." "I'm Blue." "Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either." "My name is Blue. Blue Bailey.

I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.

Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of John’s Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but dangerous and immoral.

I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?

My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle out of a dress too tight around the shoulders.

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

Indefinite plans get dubious results.

Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?' Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It’s a groundling thing.

In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies.

Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.