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19Putting confidence in an unreliable person in times of trouble is like chewing with a broken tooth or walking on a lame foot.
— Anonymous
If our life is a dream, let it continue; who wants the reality? If our life is a reality, let it continue; who wants the dream? Unknown is unreliable!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.
— Karl Kraus
Memory, if it is anything at all, is unreliable.
— Mira Bartok
If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.
— Josh McDowell
There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
— Maria Semple
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
— Paul Theroux
With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.
— Robert Walser
Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
— Nikki Giovanni
Susannah's memory had become distressingly spotty, unreliable, like the half-stripped transmission of an old car.
— Stephen King
Narrators are often unreliable, and part of the reader's pleasure is figuring out what's really true. The
— Lisa Cron
How confusing. Could it be that our narrator is unreliable? No such chance. Mind like a steel trap, I have.
— Daniel Handler
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
— Lillian Hellman
I could tell the officer all of this because it was the truth. All of this happened in the house at some stage. Should it matter when it happened?
— Sarah Schmidt
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
— Gertrude Stein
Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?
— Hans Christian Von Baeyer
Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.
— Terry Pratchett
It's because in this vast world of unreliable people, he is the one I know I can rely on.
— Jamie Kain
Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.
— Anna Funder
When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
— Criss Jami
Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future ...
— Bill Gates
The pages were yellowing a tad but sometimes it was best to go old school for reliable facts. The internet was a flaky and unreliable tool sometimes.
— M.E. Harmon
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
— Evan Esar
Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.
— Catherynne M Valente
Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.
— Dalai Lama
UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.
— Carl Sagan
At the moment, the general perception ... is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy.
— Bernard Lewis
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.
— Rebecca Solnit
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
— Nick Cave
In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.
— John Derbyshire
The idea that affable Boris[Johnson] is actually divisive, selfish and unreliable is Mr 's biggest weakness.
— James Kirkup
Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get.
— Iain M. Banks
Secrets are unreliable allies. they allow us to believe we are safr, yet all the while they are destroying us.
— Deborah Harkness
Why not add another yarn? That's all we are in the end, any of us, a couple of dozen unreliable stories.
— Iain Sinclair
Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.
— Helen Hanson
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Who are you, Lucy Snowe?
— Charlotte Bronte
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
And sometimes you realize the value of the rain by knowing how unreliable and vanishing the rainbow is.
— Nur Bedeir
In her experience cowboys were notoriously unreliable, generally unfaithful, and rarely capable of settling at all.
— Victoria Vane
Driving your car through deep pools of flood water is a great way of making your car unreliable. Smart people turn around and avoid it.
— Steven Magee
Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.
— Chris French
Venn was like a devilish older sibling, offering that brotherly combination of wholly unreliable and utterly trustworthy.
— Tom Rachman
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.
— Gilbert Ryle
Or, rather, you irritate everyone, Curdle. Because you're so unreliable.'
'I'm not always unreliable, Telorast. — Steven Erikson
'I'm not always unreliable, Telorast. — Steven Erikson
Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.
— Terry Pratchett
First impressions are always unreliable.
— Franz Kafka
You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
— Idries Shah
But we must understand that emotions are unreliable and at times, tyrannical. They should never be permitted to dominate us.
— James C. Dobson
I am a man of my word ... and that word is unreliable.
— Demetri Martin
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
— Guy De Maupassant
Most of the things that "everybody knows" are wrong. The rest are merely unreliable.
Batman — Neil Gaiman
Batman — Neil Gaiman
The brain is unreliable. It relies on lies.
— Brian Spellman
Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?
— Sigmund Freud
Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.
— John Piper
There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.
— Marjorie Benton Cooke
But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don't share it there's a good chance that it will drive them apart instead. Maybe
— Fredrik Backman
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
— Leonard Cohen
Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable?
— Augustine Of Hippo
Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable.
— Dorie Greenspan
Wikipedia was the single most unreliable source of knowledge this side of The National Enquirer.
— Paul Combs
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
— Edward De Bono
Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.
— Cherie Blair
If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.
— J.D. Salinger
I'm starting to think that pure truth is impossible, and that all narrators and all people are at least a little unreliable.
— Susan Juby
People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.
— Leonora Carrington
An untested faith is an unreliable faith.
— Kay Warren
We commonly do not remember that it is ... always the first person that is speaking.
— Henry David Thoreau
My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.
— Vladimir Nabokov
People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.
— Josh Fox
As you may know, in this Town, memory is unreliable and uncertain. There are things we can remember and things we cannot remember.
— Haruki Murakami
I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved
unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him. — Edward Bernds
unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him. — Edward Bernds
Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced ... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
— Charles Stanley
I had done a deed - what was it?
— Edgar Allan Poe
Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.
— Janusz Korczak
Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams
— James Grissom
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'
— Charles Palliser
Automobiles are unreliable and dangerous slaves. They frequently revolt and kill their masters. I hate them.
— Michael D. O'Brien
Emotions, he was certain, were unreliable and irrelevant to the labor of religious faith.
— Michael D. O'Brien