Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think as an actor, you're more like a dancer, and you have to use your body. I don't understand all these… — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
“Christopher Isherwood tried to trick a good topic into rising from his unconscious by irritating it, “deliberately writing nonsense until it intervenes,… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Bicycles should not be insured or registered, and cycling proficiency should not be subject to a test. That's just weak-kneed nonsense from… — James May Copy Share Image
“You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I don't mind being around a whole bunch of people, but when there's a whole bunch of nonsense going on around me,… — Minkah Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
A fool can never be made to question his own wisdom. And George Groves is very foolish. He believes his own nonsense.… — Carl Froch Copy Share Image
What (Stephen) Hawking says in his book The Grand Design is the universe exists because it needed to exist, and because it… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about.… — Anton du Beke Copy Share Image
While all men are born as equals, to say that Brahmins alone are the highest and all others are low as Pariah… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and enable and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to… — Ron Bloom Copy Share Image
“I keep hearing about a spiritual awakening, but I feel what we need instead, is a human one. It would be wonderful… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Women all think that if a guy likes you he will come and talk to you. That's nonsense - 'actually the opposite… — Matthew Hussey Copy Share Image
People are asking that question again if Max is being too tough on his equipment, but that's complete nonsense. He can't overdrive,… — Jos Verstappen Copy Share Image
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I don't like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The meaning of the directions in kata is not well understood, and frequently mistakes are made in the interpretation of kata movements.… — Kenwa Mabuni Copy Share Image
Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone tell you that you're not good enough. Don't let anyone tell you that you're too short, you're too fat,… — Bradley Walsh Copy Share Image
Different people describe me in a different ways. Some describe me as the living Buddha. Nonsense. Some describe me as 'God-king.' Nonsense.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at… — George Albert Wells Copy Share Image
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
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