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Quotes About Dubious

Perhaps he did not think Junior could live with the moral ambiguities of a fortune extracted by dubious methods.
~ Ron Chernow
I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.
~ Paul Klee
dubious means might subvert virtuous ends.
~ Anthony Everitt
A genuine kindness is usually not appreciated in a wicked world full of foolish , dubious and selfish people.
~ Anuj Somany
A self-seeker is such a mentally sick creature who loves only own physical,external feature rather than internal nature and always likes to put every where own picture with almost everyone and everything including thoughts and scriptures on social media to get the praise merely for own face from others. Such person or netizen often ends up getting many support on own photo bearing post, but all from the people who have equally selfish or dubious character.
~ Anuj Somany
An identity of a foolish personality is that he does not speak/do anything against unjust laws/atrocity if a selfless person asks him with honesty to thwart the injustice, but begins to participate or support the protest by seeing on street the plenty of dubious/selfish people led by a crafty who is covertly a part of crook authority only
~ Anuj Somany
Fools get easily caught through their support to an online dubious post, but they could never know not as when, where and how.
~ Anuj Somany
News channels both mainstream and social media are battling for its survival as its credibility has already gone below ground to minus level. but instead of doing something for citizens trust revival on its reports, media continues to dig deeper hole for itself through dubious stories shovel and has become completely nude & shameless by throwing all its towel.
~ Anuj Somany
I enjoy provocative things that are questionable.
~ Michael Douglas
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
~ Wallace Stegner
the weather is such as I would favour if I were a potato-grower – or, more dubiously, if I were a potato.
~ John Leslie Mackie
It was a skill useful to lawyers, and no man in all English history was more the lawyer than Coke. He personified a profession considered both so influential and so dubious that in 1372 the House of Commons had tried to bar lawyers from Parliament; little had changed when, in Coke's lifetime, Shakespeare wrote, "First, kill all the lawyers.
~ John M. Barry
Beginnings, it's said, are apt to be shadowy.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
When I first teach people my Behavior Model, they are sometimes a little dubious when I tell them this is a universal model. They wonder how one model with just four letters could possibly account for every kind of behavior in every culture.
~ B.J. Fogg
Maggie in her crude form, with her hair down her back, and altogether in a state of dubious promise, was a most undesirable niece; but now she was capable of being at once ornamental and useful.
~ George Eliot
Feuchtwanger's more dubious actions — e.g., he threw away cables that contained information pertaining to the prisoners but addressed to him personally, without informing the other prisoners of the cables' contents. When they learned of his callousness, the inmates were out for blood, but Schoenberner protected Feuchtwanger with the condescending defense that "by his own dim lights" he was "quite innocent.
~ Anthony Heilbut
double et louche (a provocative phrase which could mean "double and squinting" or "equivocal" or "shady" in the sense of disreputable).
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.
~ James Dickey
Hitler insisted on the superiority of the Aryan race, but his closest allies were the Italians, and he accorded the Japanese the dubious accolade of
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
The flats were solidly built, so at least I didn't grow up listening to next door's live docusoap, but they were built on the dubious assumption, so beloved of postwar planners, that the London working class was composed entirely of hobbits.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Has the Prime Minister made up his mind to cover up at all costs the dubious third man activities of Mr Harold Philby who was first secretary at the Washington embassy a little time ago, and is he determined to stifle all discussions on the very great matters which were evaded in the White Paper, which is an insult to the intelligence of the country?
~ Ben Macintyre
Could if be that there is something dubious about hope and that when hope has disappeared from a man's life his life assumes a more severe and positive character? Could it be that life seems so much the more real when all illusions have vanished, just as the contours of a mountain ridge appear more clearly on the horizon when the clouds are gone?
~ Benjamin Constant
In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
~ Julian Barnes
The deal looks bad and smells worse.
~ Michelle Malkin