Unreliable Quotes

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.

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

Unfortunately, my army consists of one unreliable criminal, one girl with a disability, and one incredibly foolish young vampire with a tanning issue. I am not confident.

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.

Our feelings about how we're feeling are notoriously unreliable.

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale.

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.

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.

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable.

I'd like to use IMAX. The problem with IMAX is that it's a very loud camera. It's a very unreliable camera. Only so much film can be in the camera. You can't really do intimate scenes with it.

In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.

Jesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable.

There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.

I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.

But we must understand that emotions are unreliable and at times, tyrannical. They should never be permitted to dominate us.

Driving your car through deep pools of flood water is a great way of making your car unreliable. Smart people turn around and avoid it.