Quotes about absurd
absurd almost believe economic economy replace risk series
It's almost absurd to think you can replace the World Series as an economic event. In no way does it put the economy at risk of double-dip recession, but I believe the economy loses.
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It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true, I deny the sacrilegious story of a God born of a virgin to redeem the race. Leo Tolstoy
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And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others. Ralph Ellison
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative Oliver Goldsmith
absurd allow amuse attainment cant develop educating fact fairy few hair hero himself honor honorable ideas learn magical morality prevent princess proper rid romantic solitude son systems tales useful weak win worth younger
Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ''ideals',' of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax. Lionel Trilling
absurd certainty condition doubt pleasant
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one. Voltaire
absurd adequate cruelty ground perfectly theory
Cruelty is in theory a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd Bertrand Russell
absurd love politics spectator sports
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports! Miguel Syjuco
absurd baffling confession death dignity face guilt night painful portrait reveals sees truth watching
Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it. Simon McBurney
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Today, Mr. Bennett told us his comments were meant as hypothetical. He says that he was really trying to demonstrate the limitation of one argument by showing the absurdity of another. Bob Woodruff
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There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. Marcus Tullius Cicero
absurd combine kinda mesh met onto people pure recording scenes slightly voices
It was very exciting, ... It's all very new to me, you know? It's an interesting and fascinating process. There's something very pure about it being from the page, into the air, and onto the recording machine. You have that and you combine that with doing scenes where they're going to mesh these voices together, but you're doing a scene with people you've never even met before, which is slightly absurd but kinda great. Johnny Depp
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It was absurd to place the Taiwan independence movement in a scenario of 'monkey cries on both banks behind my boat',
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It was absurd in the spring, and it's still absurd, Richard Hatch
absurd argue average best fix politician strike trying
It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.' David Harsanyi
absurd left months people primary realize save stay system telling texas
We've been telling people for months now to stay away from the primary and save yourself for Kinky. We realize it's absurd to tell people in Texas not to vote, but the two-party system has left us with no choice.
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What is utterly absurd happens in the world Nikolai Gogol
absurd biology san seems university
When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now. Craig Venter
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I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. T. E. Lawrence
absurdity all-things
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity. Salman Rushdie
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Everything is absurd. Fernando Pessoa
absurdity boldness
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity. Francis Bacon
absurdity amount believe deter manifest
No amount of manifest absurdity . . . could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. Bernard Levin
absurd puppets
Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around. Jamie Wyeth
absurd demeaning free police society
It's absurd to try to police demeaning speech. That's not what a free society does. Greg Lukianoff
absurd band carrying face hate heroic job office support
It's absurd to think a band is something heroic. There is nothing heroic about being a band or making music. Heroic is doing a job that you hate every day in an office to support your family. It's carrying on in the face of that. Kele Okereke
absurd case frightens opens people secret sorts unfair
It's absurd to think 97 or 100 people participated in a secret conspiracy. This frightens witnesses, freezes them from testifying and opens the case to all sorts of unfair hearsay.
absurd equal national past question record sweet three winning
It's absurd to say getting to the Sweet 16 equates to winning a national title. There's no question Duke's record of the past 15 years is impressive, but how many national championships have they won? Three doesn't equal 10.
absurd casualties nearly needs week
It's absurd that nearly a week after the cyclone we still don't know what casualties there are, or the needs of the people.
absurd bind collected human laws million moral strangely suppose
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately. Thomas Jefferson
absurd allowed caused causing charge michael road
It's just like Michael was road kill. It's absurd if they're not allowed to charge him with causing our son's death, because he caused our son's death.
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It's a survivor's sense of humor, maybe even a Jewish sense of humor. Because of the difficulty of life for many Eastern Europeans - the pogroms, the Revolution, the Holocaust - their humor is broad and aggressively and ridiculously comic. It also triggers an emotional response. It's that kind of chaos and absurdity that results in an opening-up to a discovery of deeper emotion. Liev Schreiber
absurd excellent fabulous great hugely life pretend privileged surrounded travel
It's an excellent life. I'm rich. I'm happy. I have a great job. I travel hither and yon to fabulous places. I'm surrounded by wonderful, interesting people. I live a privileged life -- hugely privileged.... It would be absurd to pretend that it's anything different.