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  • I always love seeing what worries you. Strigoi? No. Questionable food? Yes. -- Richelle Mead
  • You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business. -- Victor Kiam
  • It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. -- John Stuart Mill
  • While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner. -- Mike Pence
  • The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity. -- Jonah Hill
  • You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you. -- Orson Scott Card
  • The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research. -- Roger Wicker
  • That questionable superfluity small beer. -- Douglas William Jerrold
  • The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable. -- Paul Broca
  • I am for wine and the embrace of questionable women. -- Gannicus
  • How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable. -- Jessica Savitch
  • The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value... -- Ansel Adams
  • All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness. -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love! -- Christos Gage
  • Chelsea's players, coaches and agents are now football's wealthiest millionaires. Surely the billions taken from the Russian people by an oligarch in questionable privatisations couldn't be better spent? -- Simon Kuper
  • When praying for the Lord's will about something questionable, don't give up if you don't receive clear leading after one prayer; just keep on praying until God makes it clear. -- Curtis Hutson
  • ...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart. -- Steve Martin
  • For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men . -- Arthur Ransome
  • When the believer is faced with a decision regarding a questionable matter, he should never proceed unless he has complete peace about it. If there is nothing wrong with it, then God is able to give complete peace. -- Curtis Hutson
  • I have been putting words like 'abnormal' and 'deviant' in quotes because those categorizations are under fire now, the boundary between normal and abnormal as questionable now as are all the other boundaries that once defined social reality. -- Walter Truett Anderson
  • It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances. -- Hosea Ballou
  • Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness. -- Francis Quarles
  • Encourage your children to come to you for counsel with their problems and questions by listening to them every day. Discuss with them such important matters as dating, sex, and other matters affecting their growth and development, and do it early enough so they will not obtain information from questionable sources. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • It isn't that it's questionable when you speak up for the right of people with different sexual orientation. People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation. People are killed because they're gay. -- Desmond Tutu
  • For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight. They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality... -- Adrian Carton de Wiart
  • Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable. -- Jose Maria Aznar
  • Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. -- Lord Kelvin
  • In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments. -- Daniel Craig
  • In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. -- Thomas Keneally
  • The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable. -- Ted Danson
  • To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character. -- Noel Gallagher
  • What does the future look like if the heads of society ask our young people to risk their lives for questionable causes? I think it looks rather bleak. -- Tracy Chapman
  • Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent. -- Victor Garber
  • In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy. -- Cynthia McKinney
  • Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter. -- Victor Garber
  • With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight. -- Larry Holmes
  • If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable. -- Daniel Kahneman
  • It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way; but it is questionable whether with high-bred natures a subdued, quiet, and delicate manner does not go still further. -- Richard Jefferies
  • The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think. -- Julian Baggini
  • It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on. -- Barry Gibb
  • What people don't realize is that China papered over its last two credit bubbles, those in 1999 and 2004. The banks were never bailed out - they just exchanged their bad loans for questionable bonds from quasi-state organizations. -- James Chanos
  • The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. -- Ronald Fisher
  • Foyle's War' made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on his soul, but he never let his personal demons get in the way of what was best for our country. -- Honeysuckle Weeks
  • One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity. -- James Buchan
  • When I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.' -- Kate Winslet
  • Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War. -- Jackson Katz
  • Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally. -- Chuck Klosterman
  • Too many people are setting up ways to raise money that are questionable. -- Joe Vitale
  • 'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'. -- George Eliot
  • Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works. -- Thomas Griffith
  • One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name. -- Albert Einstein
  • Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare. -- Erin Morgenstern
  • That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Unquestioning obedience is hailed as a great virtue only by those leaders whose commands are highly questionable. -- George Hammond
  • Beginning in 1940,...questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer. ...the proportion of 'cancer' cures...increased rapidly... -- Hardin B. Jones
  • The value of universal literacy is of course questionable in a society that practices the strictest form of censorship. -- Victor Andres Triay
  • Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable. -- Leslie Carroll
  • Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women. -- Lord Kelvin
  • That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this...this--' 'School? -- Rick Riordan
  • We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable. -- Peter J. Carroll
  • We found that we didn't have much problem with him [J.C.], it was his followers we found questionable. -- Graham Chapman
  • There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable. -- Deniz Gamze Erguven
  • I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life. -- Geoff Rickly
  • It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films. -- Mel Brooks
  • I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Always refer to those of the female gender as ladies.The descriptive woman is usually reserved in Dixie for females of questionable respect. -- Ann Barrett Batson
  • Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a how answer to what is really a why question. -- Alfie Kohn
  • Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body. -- Aristotle
  • I would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse social consequences. -- Michael Sandel
  • The 14th Amendment is very questionable as to whether or not somebody can come over, have a baby and immediately that baby is a citizen. -- Donald Trump
  • I love Twitter. My favorite thing to do these days is to tweet things that seem very questionable as to whether I'm joking or not. -- Max Greenfield
  • The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today in some circles. -- Mahan Esfahani
  • I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • In a life where waking hours are draped in the costume of horrid nightmare, where reality has suddenly become questionable, it's easy to be scared by dreams. -- Scott Sigler
  • Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation. -- Henri Nouwen
  • A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life. -- Ai Weiwei
  • Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body. -- Michael Bassey
  • The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference. -- Jeff Atwood
  • Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon's involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to his Checkers speech should not have been surprised when he orchestrated the Watergate cover-up as president. -- Ronald Kessler
  • That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction. -- Roger Wolcott Sperry
  • As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better. -- Jill Sobule
  • I much prefer following a lead character that is doing morally questionable things. How much do you get on board? Do like that? Do you hate it? Does it matter? -- Christian Cooke
  • The referees made a questionable call. Still, I was ready with an answer and picked up on the first ring. That ring was an engagement ring, and I said yes. -- Jarod Kintz
  • President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against black people in Chicago is reflective of Mr. Emmanuel's values. -- Julianne Malveaux
  • [Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances. -- Jonathan Capehart
  • The top 10% of the people who are most creative, constructive and thoughtful, do not have much to do with churches. To them the canons of reason come first, making faith secondary and questionable. -- Joseph Fletcher
  • The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good. -- Ansel Adams
  • Because in the end nothing is worse than seeing the fall of one you loved. It was somehow worse than losing a love. It made everything seem questionable. It made the past bitter and confused. -- Cassandra Clare
  • We live in a polarized world of contrived dualisms, dichotomies and paradoxes: light vs. dark and good vs. evil. We as Mexic Amerindians/mestizas are the dark. We are the evilor at least, the questionable. -- Ana Castillo
  • Love is greater than marriage, love is the greater thing while marriage, though noble and honorable, is questionable in its origins. I question the creations of man, I do not question the masterpieces of God. -- C. JoyBell C.
  • Love is greater than marriage, love is the greater thing while marriage, though noble and honorable, is questionable in its origins. I question the creations of man, I do not question the masterpieces of God." -- C. JoyBell C.
  • Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong decisions and less than desirable circumstances. -- Shannon L. Alder
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