“What I’ve come to find is that politics asks who is right, religion asks what is true, and nature asks nothing at… — Sam Loya Copy Share Image
The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but… — Jon Evans Copy Share Image
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
You just have to get out of the bubble and you have to quit listening to yourself. People are really hurt. The… — Mary Matalin Copy Share Image
I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity someone he didn't… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“The irony of this endeavor is palpable, for English itself is a hopeless hodgepodge of other tongues, with more exceptions than rules,… — George Takei Copy Share Image
There were too many lemmings - that was the core of their difficulty. None wanted solitude, but a crowd of this size… — Sally Carrighar Copy Share Image
We live in a crazy time, and parents are very worried about their children's futures. They're getting all kinds of messages about… — Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Copy Share Image
While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“Peter, who broke his enemies on the rack and hanged them in Red Square, who had his son tortured to death, is… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
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It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“It’s more believable that a cop would get involved in solving these murders. I mean, you’re talking about writing a series. How… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Fear is the number one reason why people do not take action. The divine irony is that most of the fears we… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Maia screamed and woke. 'Serenity?' Cala's voice, Cala's angular shape outlined against the window. ' 'Tis an ironic title, in sooth,' Maia… — Katherine Addison Copy Share Image
Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine,… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“If we ran Nigeria like this cell," he said, "we would have no problems in this country. Things are so organized. Our… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
“I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and it turns out they don’t need legitimate reasons. Heaven has… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
One of the outstanding ironies of history is the utter disregard of ranks and titles in the final judgments men pass on… — Samuel Logan Brengle Copy Share Image
By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
“There is this pain of love. You experience it some moments. It starts like a strange gnawing at your heart. It then… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
![“You just have to get out of the bubble and you have to quit listening to yourself. People are really hurt. The irony of this is, though, had Ms.[Hillary] Clinton listened to her husband instead of her boss, she might could have stopped this Rust Belt redneck revolt.” quote by Mary Matalin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9eb/mary-matalin-18496_belts_you-just-have-to-get-out-of-the-bubble-a_795466.jpg)
