Dubious Quotations

The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.

A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape.

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

To some degree, I was very dubious of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' idea - taking a theme park ride and turning into a film - even though they seemed to end up being quite fun films.

The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.

Lenders now feel the agenda has changed, with inquiries looking at virtually every source of income. Some aspect of these inquiries appears to be based upon an assumption of excess profitability. This seems dubious when you look at the numbers.

Since theological propositions are scientifically meaningless, those of us of pragmatic disposition simply won't buy such dubious merchandise. . . . Maybe -- remotely -- there might be something in such promotions, as there might be something in the talking dogs and the stocks in Arabian tapioca mines that W.C. Fields once sold in his comedies, but we suspect that we recognize a con game in operation. At least, we want to hear the dog talk or see the tapioca ore before we buy into such deals.

Most of us have been rather dubious about our ability to get any decent legislation passed in the Legislature. The oil and gas industry is so big and so powerful and so good at what they do, this is very difficult.

She's an inkblot -- the last person who is going to look at Roe v. Wade and say, 'the reasoning is flawed,' and tell us why, ... She'll just follow the path of every justice in the last 25 years who comes to the bench without a developed philosophy and ends up in the liberal camp. People whose intellect is as thin and dubious as hers will be too intellectually timid to challenge orthodoxy.

I am very dubious about whether NHS money that could be spend on things that have been shown to work should be spent on things, however popular they are.

I'm a little dubious of the licensing into clothes. For girls who are older than eight, do they really want to connect with the products and brands that they played with when they were younger?

Sue the industry and have them cave in or face imminent financial ruin by having to defend an avalanche of legally dubious lawsuits and bad publicity. That's their game plan,

I was a little dubious about introducing this to the lake country. On the Iron Range, it's in their blood.

It is increasingly clear that the intelligence and the facts were indeed fixed around the policy, and we sent our troops to war under dubious pretenses,

I think there were some dubious feelings about it, that the first 'Scarface' would not be surpassed by the second 'Scarface.' We were wrong; it surpassed it. The acting talent, the cinematography - we were propelled into a real class action film. Long after I kick the bucket, it'll be played.

Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian.

We do think it's a rather dubious distinction to be the first democratically elected head of state to go meet with the dictator of Iraq

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

The question is: supplementing what? People who need supplements have, basically, a disease or some dietary behavior that would leave them wanting something. It may be quite fashionable to take these things, but whether they really do anything to otherwise healthy people is dubious at best.

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.

This rush to push through legislation of dubious virtue without any significant review is both unnecessary and unwise.

There is a certain quantity of dubious caviar on the market. That necessitates an effort by importing countries.

We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future. We should view both explanations and prophecies with skepticism.

What's offensive to me is that you have the government selling Registered Traveler on the basis that we will get you through security lines faster, when they created the inconvenience on dubious grounds in the first place.

Both these teams played their hearts out tonight. It's sad that we had some dubious things happen at the end but really, it was our turnovers. We just can't afford double-digit turnovers in a half. It's almost hard to believe.

I knew I wanted to be an actor, and my mother said, 'Call Aaron Sorkin.' It seemed dubious that I'd make it as an actor by calling Jews I knew, but it worked.

I'm dubious that the boost in corporate profitability from outsourcing has contributed much to creating new jobs.

It's unfortunate of course that what kept him from the swearing in was an activity that is itself of dubious ethical propriety.

high levels of violence in Latin America represent a serious obstacle for economic and social development in the region, which has the dubious distinction of being one of the most violent in the world.

I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character.

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

Agents are getting their hands on serious amounts of money - more than ?30 million (US$36.6 million) alone on the French market - which is unjustifiable compared to the work carried out, and dubious as to where that money is heading.

The European Union now has a coherent approach to banning airlines. This black list will keep dubious airlines out of Europe. It will also make sure that all airlines operating in Europe's sky meet the highest safety standards.

The life of man is a dubious experiment. It is a tremendous phenomenon only in numerical terms. Individually, it is so fleeting, so insufficient, that it is literally a miracle that anything can exist and develop at all.

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.

It puts dangerous people back on the streets in exchange for dubious testimony.

It seems to me extremely dubious to be constructing buildings based on drawings by Wright as if these are actually Wright's works.

It's a dubious honor because we shouldn't have been in that position.

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

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

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.

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

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

I kissed her," he explained, aggrieved. "Mmm, yes, I had the dubious pleasure of witnessing that, ah-hem, overly public occurrence." Lyall sharpened his pen nib, using a small copper blade that ejected from the end of his glassicals. "Well! Why hasn't she done anything about it?" the Alpha wanted to know. "You mean like whack you upside the noggin with that deadly parasol of hers? I would be cautious in that area if I were you.

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

Indefinite plans get dubious results.

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