Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God. — Herbert McCabe Copy Share Image
[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart. — Michael T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It is actually nonsense to link menswear and travel. But it is important that you have a purpose when you design menswear. — Junya Watanabe Copy Share Image
I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you… — Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Copy Share Image
It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
We will not stand for it any more. No more lies. No more pre-emptive, illegal war, based on false information. No more… — Rocky Anderson Copy Share Image
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion.… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In the end the recrudescence of racism on the right is conservatism's problem to solve, and it has to be solved independently… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“Baruk looked up, then twisted in his chair to regard his guest, who was busy preening herself on his map-table. ‘Crone, the… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Everyone from the pope to some hobo thinks, "I'm a human being. What am I doing here?" You can't get carried away… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
There is no hunt in Thanet, nor is there a fox problem. There is no Tooting hunt, no Wandsworth hunt and no… — Roger Gale Copy Share Image
Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it's nonsense. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image