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Quotes About Questionable

Asking if there is corruption in Thailand is like asking if there is dough inside a bakery. Pies and cakes don't come from heaven and neither do deals and contracts.
~ Christopher G. Moore
Few qualms of conscience are to be found in the memoirs of those who exercised command in the wars for highly questionable causes that Britain and the U.S.A. waged in the nineteenth century.
~ Heinz Guderian
3 El ego es un intento de la mente errada para que te percibas a ti mismo tal como deseas ser, en vez de como realmente eres. 4 Sin embargo, sólo te puedes conocer a ti mismo como realmente eres, ya que de eso es de lo único que puedes estar seguro. 5 Todo lo demás es cuestionable.
~ Helen Schucman
But by the term 'scientific' is understood just what was formerly understood by the term 'religious': just as formerly everything called 'religious' was held to be unquestionable simply because it was called religious, so now all that is called 'scientific' is held to be unquestionable.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There is something very questionable and unbiblical about those who claim a baptism of the Spirit and yet know nothing of extended periods in prayer.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.
~ Leslie Carroll
With his rakehell profile and impudent blue eyes, this was a statement of highly questionable validity, but she refrained from taking issue with it.
~ Leslie Charteris
How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.
~ Jessica Savitch
It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally.
~ Chuck Klosterman
We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves. Even if my philosophy does not extend to discovering anything new, it does nevertheless possess the courage to regard as questionable what has long been thought true.
~ Unknown
This was fishy, and more "old tuna in the heat" fishy instead of "damn good fishsticks" fishy.
~ Unknown
But before we could continue the war, it was necessary to analyze it to determine what its purpose was. We did this, and we found that it had no purpose, except, perhaps, in terms of human needs. Even this was questionable.
~ Philip K. Dick
Your certitude is in questionable taste, Mr. Tagomi said. It seems to press untowardly.
~ Philip K. Dick
CHARLES: I believe that any professional bears the shame of the questionable worth of his ministrations. I know of my racket what you know of yours: that, for the most part, we are paid for the ability to keep a straight face. While accomplishing little or nothing.
~ David Mamet
Fishing—precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge." "I know what fishing is." I took a sip of
~ Craig Johnson
A movement in the vines startled her and an opossum scurried out, looked at Clare and flopped over in fake death. She had seen this twice before in her garden back home and it was difficult not to draw certain parallels, amusing ones, though if you played dead long enough the act of coming back to life was questionable.
~ Jim Harrison
By early February my world had considerably lightened because I spent all day seeing rather than reading or thinking, the latter of which comprised mostly of shortsighted rehearsals of questionable conclusions. This all could easily be allowed to dissipate into the landscape because I was exhausted by the fraudulence of my hard work.
~ Jim Harrison
NOTHING APPLIES, I print with the magnetized IBM pencil. What does apply, they ask later, as if the word nothing were ambiguous, open to interpretation, a questionable fragment of an Icelandic rune.
~ Joan Didion
Alienated from most of his relatives, Walsh left his entire estate to a questionable charity
~ Dean Koontz
Heroes did not always swoop in to rescue. They made questionable calls. They lived with doubts. They replayed and edited and imagined different outcomes. They killed, sometimes, to save.
~ Jodi Picoult
How is Hitler? Fine, solid, dependable.
~ Don DeLillo
He shook his head. "I don't know. Someplace crookeder than here." "You know a place crookeder than Dallas?" "Sure.
~ John Sandford
Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.
~ Marian Keyes
What are you?" he demanded. "A slayer?" I rolled my eyes. "The name's Val, not Buffy. Do I look like a blond cheerleader with questionable taste in men?
~ Unknown