Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.
a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.
Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
For the patient who remained hospitalized a long time, an insidious metamorphosis took place - the outside world dimmed and faded like a watercolor exposed to the sun, while the hospital became the center and the only real part of the universe.
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question. . . Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' Let us go and make our visit"' 'I'm in love with you,' he said quietly.
My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.
But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American musical. The politics is conservative but, to my mind, effective and insidious.
One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.
[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence. . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.
Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.
. . . unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature's fire.
In our nation a new and insidious form of religious hatred is developing. I believe there is an attempt to create hatred in the public mind toward orthodox Christians, Jews, and Catholics. It is being implemented by the mass media.
Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern. Just the slow erosion of the self, as insidious as any cancer. And, like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience. A room in hell with only your name on the door.
