Incongruities Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new…
— August Strindberg
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People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is…
— Bill Hybels
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The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid…
— Amy Lowell
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Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
— Stephen Leacock
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It is only when you realize that you are mortal and yet immortal simultaneously that you begin to realize that the beautiful incongruities of existence…
— Frederick Lenz
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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of…
— Mark Twain
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Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.
— Leigh Hunt
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But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too…
— William Osler
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I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather…
— Anne Fadiman
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Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner
— Leigh Hunt
Who Wrote These Incongruities Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 Incongruities Quotes as follows: