Closure is a preposterous concept worthy of the worst aspects of American daytime TV. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous. — James Cook Copy Share Image
“But this whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that... we need to be really, really respectful… — Bono Copy Share Image
“The preposterous obstinacy of these honest people in persisting to groan and stumble along the difficult pathway rather than take advantage of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The idea that we should prioritize a racial viewpoint on, who knows, maybe even organic chemistry, over somebody who is adept at… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
“she sipped tea and surrendered her afternoon to reading about the flora of Cairn Ocland. She wanted something to discuss with the… — Vivienne Savage Copy Share Image
What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly. — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
“In every opportunity, question your beliefs. Don’t forget that most of the beliefs are preposterous empty stories!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The claims [about my inappropriate conduct with women] are preposterous, ludicrous, and defy truth, common sense and logic. We already have substantial… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If you think you're good enough, then you find it preposterous when somebody doesn't acknowledge that... That's propelled me in many ways… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“If any preposterous bill were brought forward, for giving poor grubbing devils of authors a right to their own property I should… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
"You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows," said the sane person to the poet. "Yet it would… — Thomas William Hodgson Crosland Copy Share Image
“All this seems preposterous. But in fact one lapse of judgment can quickly create a situation in which only foolish choices are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
“The less support an idea has,the more fervently it must be believed in, so that a totally preposterous idea requires unflinching faith.” — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don't think I had the… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“The idea that human beings should exercise their vocal organs for any purpose except that of communicating or discovering truth was to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“This is preposterous,” he said. “If I say yes, I’m buying something I didn’t ask for. And if I refuse, I’m like… — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think there is a role for courts in a variety of areas, but the notion that we can allow a federal… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“REM sleep ushers you into a preposterous theater wherein you are treated to a bizarre, highly associative carnival of autobiographical themes.” — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been… — James Gray Copy Share Image
Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions. — Roger Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“If you had a smattering of education you would realize that perfection of form can give validity to any sentiment, however preposterous.” — Margery Sharp Copy Share Image
A lot of people just think that that's unreasonable or preposterous. But you know, if everybody chose to do it God's way,… — Jase Robertson Copy Share Image
When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does. In fact there is no explanation -… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
“We could do it, you know," Gale says quietly. "What?" I ask. "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Preposterous ass, that never read so far To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image