“As soon as they leave, Leon says to me: "I disagree, sir. There are people who aren't insane, and I'm one of… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
“Salcombe Hardy groaned: "How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Teenagers: The most misunderstood people on earth. Treated like children and expected to act like adults. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people fail to see the person standing right in front of them...the one who cares the most, the one who would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure how people drink out of skulls,” Jinx added. Calvin had too many holes in him to make a good… — Sage Blackwood Copy Share Image
Jehovah's witnesses don't celebrate Halloween...I guess they don't appreciate random people coming up to their doors. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the US, quite a few of the ultra-rich have… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“The irony didn’t escape her, that after years of reading with fascination about swindlers and cheats caught by the authorities, she should… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
labels can be fun! Some people are like, "As a card-carrying bear, where I also have a little bit of fairy in… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
“In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had,… — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Wrath: look at how their folklore portrays our species. There's Dracula for Christ's sake, an evil bloodsucker who preys on the defenseless.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“If the empire had been afflicted by any recent calamity, by a plague, a famine, or an unsuccessful war; if the Tiber… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“And the irony is that as soon as he finally had something, someone worth living for, he’s gone. Like he couldn’t handle… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't it be ironic if everyone who got a radio up and running just sat around waiting for everyone else to transmit… — Patricia Hamill Copy Share Image
Isn't it ironic that women always want to hurt the loyal guys but keep around the jerks. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I may not have believed in lady luck, but I believed in her fucking sister, irony. That bitch was bent on nailing… — Pippa DaCosta Copy Share Image
How is it that I can remember words to a song from years ago but can't remember what the hell I studied… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes we struggled to a tasteless coffee until the last sip and find sugar lying at the bottom.. THats life,. always sweetened… — The_fox Copy Share Image
It must be a cruel joke of nature that people who are so bad for us, make us feel so good. — Harrison Daniel Copy Share Image
The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also… — Mark Potok Copy Share Image
Irony: when you fall for the person you hate most of all in the world, and when you give him your heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So now that we don't have different clothes," I say, "you merely have different women," This is irony, but he doesn't acknowledge… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“I have already made this paper too long, for which I must crave pardon, not having now time to make it shorter.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I wonder if Bettie Page original gay cult had something to do with the ironies inherent in her image, as well as… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
