“Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't… — T. Rafael Cimino Copy Share Image
“The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
I'm not sure a lot of us in the music business or in rock 'n' roll are given credit for irony or… — Terence Trent D'Arby Copy Share Image
“To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are it's victim and we have no… — William Glasser M.D Copy Share Image
“Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent… — Mark O'Connell Copy Share Image
Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The funny thing about forgiveness is that by letting go of something outside of ourselves. It gives us peace inside of ourselves. — Justice Cabral Copy Share Image
“The things you love too much perish”—After Shostakovich and Volkov, p. 78. The composer goes on: “You have to treat everything with… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
“Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours, Yours are the eyes through… — St. Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do?… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
It has always been an irony to me that the 'religious right' has come under so much attack for being involved in… — Kay Coles James Copy Share Image
“Since ideology, particularly in it's shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity to apprehend and appreciate irony, I suggest that the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am." His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. From the beginning it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people. The irony is that it… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
I think that I'm still very enthusiastic about every single thing that I do. I'm still very passionate. I never feel tired… — Franca Sozzani Copy Share Image
“Paparazzi Pepperoni by Stewart Stafford Gladiatrix in an algorithmic arena; Jane of all trades, influencer of none, Duckface pose in a selfie… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned. Yes, we thought we… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“I don't like ferocious irony but rather the kind that vacillates between disappointment and hope. Okay?” — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
“You can't deal with being odd? ... Become like them... Become drug delear... Live their lifes... have fun ... and be honest...” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
It hurts to love someone and unrequited, but whats most painful is to never find the courage to tell that person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That's the unforgivable sin, you know." "What is?" "Refusing to forgive someone." "Refusing to forgive someone is the unforgivable sin?" I asked… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist. — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
The irony here is we're looking for water and we're looking out for water. Without it you die, and with too much… — Cody Lundin Copy Share Image
That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The most disappointing is not the one that we are doing it wrong, but we are doing the right thing for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When your children are young you want to protect them from the world. When they're teenagers, you want to protect them from… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
The irony is that we are busy doing many things that don't matter and we have no time for things that do.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change. — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
Hi, I'm a girl. I run from guys that want to make me happy and fight for the ones that make me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Where did you find construction guys swapping dirty jokes in proto-Númenorean?” Aura asked. “On construction sites. Is that coffee ready?” — John Barnes Copy Share Image
Every man imagines that he will turn his suit like a double agent, that it can be twisted to his will with… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“My mouth was dry. Whispers carried on the wind as the maids around me bunched together in small groups, hysterical, morbid. I… — A.E. Croft Copy Share Image
