Unreliable Quotations

There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt to.

There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.

Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.

A lot of crime writing suffers from treading water. I feel an obligation to move the character on and not repeat myself. I try to fit him into a different period and a different agenda. That way, you learn slightly more about his personal history in the tradition of the unreliable narrator. It makes it more challenging to write.

In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.

I absolutely don't want to suggest that women are unreliable because we're mothers - on the contrary. But the question of who brings up the kids has a material effect on all women's careers.

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.

One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

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.

Many people get caught up in the non-stop gossip, rumor, and speculation that goes on every day. They end up making buy and sell decisions based on their emotions and using very unreliable information.

There is no good valuation model to determine the fair value of unexercised employee stock options. Including an unreliable estimate of the fair value of options in the income statement would distort earnings.

That being said, some of the statements of even the most unreliable witness may prove to be true.

Passengers on Amtrak and commuter trains that share freight tracks suffer delays and unreliable service in an inefficient and congested system.

That's the least they could do, ... This is the most egregious kind of error that a news organization can make: unreliable sources for a story damaging to all concerned parties. It severely tarnishes CNN, which has a very good record, and Time magazine as well.

That's the least they could do. This is the most egregious kind of error that a news organization can make: unreliable sources for a story damaging to all concerned parties. It severely tarnishes CNN, which has a very good record, and Time magazine as well.

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

I am a man of my word… and that word is “unreliable.

We are pleased that President Bush recognizes the need to move the country toward an energy future that is less reliant on unreliable and increasingly costly foreign sources of oil.

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.

Unreliable access to energy, which has been evident from recent short- and long-term challenges and threats, has influenced the well-being of the entire world community.

Blame heaped on planners and those said to be responsible for unreliable intelligence.

The government over-charged in this case. They underestimated the difficulty in proving these elements. They focused more on unreliable evidence.

We see it as a searing indictment of this convoluted drug program. People are faced with a bewildering array of for-profit insurance plans. These plans are seen as so complex and unreliable that many people in great need of help are staying on the sidelines.

The tape is not direct evidence, but is indeed, unreliable hearsay, which violates the defendant's Sixth Amendment rights. The defendant cannot cross-examine a videotape.

Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.

We think that's sleazy and an unreliable way to fund public education.

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.

As it stands now, close to 8 million voters could be at the mercy of these faulty, unreliable and decertified machines. Californians deserve to go to the polls knowing that their vote will be counted, not discarded.

People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.

After two months of trial, what do we have? A prosecution built around the most discredited, unreliable witnesses.

Nobody asked what the parents were giving. Nobody. What do we do with that? Can you rely on that? That sort of sloppy, horrifying, inconsistent, scientifically unreliable material to send a woman to prison for something she didn't do?

In other words, he's an entirely unreliable individual upon whom the White House was placing substantial intelligence trust,

In the short term, natural gas suppliers might feel they have an enormous amount of leverage. In almost every instance, that position was a flawed obsession, revealing the gas producer to be an unreliable supplier.

Identification testimony is one of the more unreliable pieces of evidence for the prosecution.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.