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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

I have never sought to do anything that might facilitate any sinister attempt to undermine the interests of my country, the United States, which I love.

Johnny Chung

What do you mean for a change, mate? ... There are always more people more sinister than myself.

Jason Statham

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

George Steiner

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

Agnes De Mille

The population should be aware that we have our own sets of clones out there, and that this isn't so sinister when you're talking about working in a laboratory to intentionally create a second or third embryo.

Mark Sauer

Have you ever seen a scorpion up close? ... They're really sinister-looking beasts. They were everywhere. When the kids came to visit, we had to tell them not to leave their clothes on the floor. We took over some poison from Smith Hardware, and now we rarely see them.

Carl Gable

[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.

Bayard Rustin

I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!

Robert Crumb

One may view the past record very innocently -- as mistakes made, sloppiness, management problems on the part of the company, ... Or one may look take it much differently, and see a more sinister trend.

Michael Friedman

There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her.

Claudia Black

They've put a sinister spin on it.

Peter Strianse

I was there to watch the match. I like to watch football, there was nothing sinister in it.

Mikel Arteta

The motives for the decisions coming out of the Kremlin are difficult for us to understand, although they are not always sinister.

Jim O'neill

The police establishment should be extra alert and take optimum precaution to thwart any sinister designs at the hands of militants to create disturbances on the eve of or on Republic Day.

Nitish Kumar

The attack was extreme, sinister and barbaric. There are a lot of questions that need to be answered.

Musikari Kombo

The timing (of the special session) is pretty sinister.

Adam Wood

There's nothing sinister there. Our doctor, Deb (Robinson), caught up with him on Saturday and he just took a knock to it. He should be fine.

Robbie Deans

I would say it was both sinister and incompetent. I'm just calling a spade a spade.

Marc Holtzman

It was the espionage intelligence center of the Far East. It's a very colorful and exotic arena. Shanghai in that period was in some ways an attractive and sinister place.

Bernard Wasserstein

I had a chat with Albert before the game, and he asked if he could go home. I haven't got a problem with that and there's nothing sinister in it. He's a very professional person.

Glenn Roeder

Russian literature has a sinister streak, and I think that influence is very evident on this record. I was indulging myself with these books while I was coming up with ideas. Those books are so dark and real and not glam at all.

Diego Garcia

For car tires and things like that, and there are a lot of car tires, we are going to have to find other ways to dispose of them. But other than that, nothing really sinister.

Patrick Gloyd

The threat level for this vulnerability may be dramatically increased if more automated methods of distribution are found to be successful, such as e-mail or IM or file shares. The impact of attacks may also increase, with more sinister codes being installed as new hackers attempt to leverage the vulnerability to their advantage.

Ken Dunham

Not only was Burroughs one of the three progenitors of the Beat movement ... but he may also be regarded as one of 20th-century America's great satirists, fiercely sinister and corrosive.

Isaac Gewirtz

This was not some sinister act to dupe the people out of a small amount of money.

Coz Carson

For you to believe the plaintiff's case, you'd have to believe that all these people got together and did something sinister.

Diane Sullivan

Vote buying is part of the case, but the absentee-ballot interference is, to me, much more sinister. It involves forging names, the theft of ballots from the post office, and voting (on behalf of) people who never even see the ballot.

Tim Mcafee

We've all been called man-haters. There was one point in my career, also, where I realized a certain breed of critic would project a sinister breed of feminism on everything I did.

Theresa Rebeck

Was aware of the sinister plans of imminent execution.

Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas

[Therefore, Shanghai was also something else:] It was the espionage intelligence center of the Far East, ... It's a very colorful and exotic arena. Shanghai in that period was in some ways an attractive and sinister place.

Bernard Wasserstein