Simply looking at the status quo and suggesting that the tax code is sacrosanct and can never change, and that decisions made… — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
She thought that this man was her savior, that he had come to her at a time in her life when her… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I understand that it was Derian who spoiled everything; he purposefully tainted your view of me and forced you to follow him.… — Shalini Copy Share Image
“O.K., then, all right, they would adopt a white-trash dog. Ha ha. They could name it Zeke, buy it a little corncob… — George Saunders 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
Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
What I really like is changing a life, helping someone change a business, change a family. In the beginning, it was because… — Tony Robbins 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
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
I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have… — Andre Gide 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
Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make… — Seth Grahame-Smith 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
“I say that ambition is absurd, and yet I remain in its thrall. It’s like being a slave all your life, then… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
For years now, the fake European 'left' is trying to portray European citizens as victims of the US imperialism. It is even… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“I don't let my spaghetti dangle, or twirl it around my fork. I cut it. Of course, my preferred slicing utensil is… — Jarod Kintz 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'm now much more excited about genre distinctions. What I still see breaking down are more the hierarchical arrangements of genres. That… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Robot Boy Mr. an Mrs. Smith had a wonderful life. They were a normal, happy husband and wife. One day they got… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
