When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon… — Peter Dinklage 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
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
I heard you're campaigning on my behalf." He walked over to me. "That wouldn't be because you'd miss me too much if… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
It's an absurd world - you know, billionaires in Birkenstocks. But I'd rather have nerdy tech guys as the next Carnegie than… — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us. — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community Heads of Government that they could move ahead to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
