Incoherence Quotes

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Any time one person makes an effort to contact a deeper part of him or herself, balance his or her emotions, and deflect the stress… — Howard Martin
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of… — Thomas Jefferson
I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to… — Daniel Day-Lewis
Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and… — Neil Patrick Harris
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,… — Henry A. Kissinger
Wrangel pretended to combat the Bolsheviks, Bolshevism is Jewry. In order to retain the favor of the Jews holding the real power in England, France… — Boris Brasol
Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal… — Paul Shepard
Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible. — Judith Butler
Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what… — Alan Greenspan
In my incoherence I was grateful that for a few moments I had known what it was to suffer-or so I thought. But nothing is… — Raymond Radiguet
The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues… — James Gleick
Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear… — Gaston Bachelard
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute… — Oscar Wilde
There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their… — Edgar Allan Poe
It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence. — Deborah Levy
When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. — P.J. O'Rourke
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite… — Peter Adamson
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through… — Edward Gorey

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