It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may… — Mark E. Hyman Copy Share Image
"Helena Bonham Carter and Jeff Bridges waved at me. And, of course, it would be absurd if they were waving at me,… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Once you do lose a job, there are not a lot of social supports for you. You lose health insurance because we… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial.… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
“There will be others, many others. You’ll try desperately to digest a single word through the acronym-laden gibberish, while beginning to wonder… — Colin Nissan Copy Share Image
There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When we no longer pray, no longer listen to the voice of love that speaks to us in the moment, our lives… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I like film because it brings you very close to the absurd reality that you might spend a day shooting and not… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a… — John Major Copy Share Image
“Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law. Nothing… — Robert G Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do.… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say… — Theodoret Copy Share Image
Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
I don't know that you can do it as a satire. I mean, the business is crazy enough as it is. It's… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits… — Plato Copy Share Image
The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That word 'funny' always makes me feel uncomfortable. Because if I were trying to be funny, I would be something like Bill… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties,… — Louis Jourdan Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people?… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life… — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is… — William James Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, I get compared to people who have no clue how to do anything, but because of some Internet writing,… — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
