I like "God Give Me the Strength" very much. It's not really a blues and to call it a ballad is absurd.… — Dick Taylor Copy Share Image
Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends, and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“TEACHER Next. I am afraid -- STUDENT I em afred -- TEACHER We are out -- STUDENT Wee are out -- TEACHER… — Michael O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Being Christian without the Church doesn't make sense. That's why the great Paul VI, said that the most absurd dichotomy is loving… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Saying that fights in Japan were fixed and that me, along with other guys like Silva, Minotauro, etc., did not win those… — Mirko Cro Cop Copy Share Image
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,… — Richard Kirwan Copy Share Image
In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon… — Bill Bowerman Copy Share Image
If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Inquire, investigate, doubt yourself and others. To find truth, you must not cling to your convictions; if you are sure of the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I think one of the gorgeous things about TG is that we will go from something amazingly serious and important and significant… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
“If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
After all the thousand times I’ve told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?...I… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers;… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
Of course it is better to emphasize the unity of human beings rather than to emphasize the diversity of forms, that is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you, novice, that the absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities, and perhaps nothing… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Anger at happenstance for its absurd timing. Anger at myself for being so angry. I hate being angry and every time I… — David Bowick Copy Share Image
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“It is absurd and dangerous to imagine that God would have approved and encouraged the moderate use of a substance which intoxicates… — Samuele Bacchiocchi Copy Share Image
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
As he poured carefully, Arrow's head turned toward the sound. The horse made a low grumbling noise in his throat. "Hold your… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image