Best Incongruous Quotes

42 Incongruous quotes by 38 unique authors

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and… — Theodore Roosevelt
Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness… — Frederick Lenz
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. — George Eliot
I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot. — Joyce Maynard
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the… — Yehudi Menuhin
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition… — Alfred North Whitehead
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to… — Daniel Defoe
Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too. — Kristin Cashore
He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he… — Ayn Rand
The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads… — Anais Nin
People want incongruous, impossible things. — Kristin Cashore
A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his… — Thomas Mann
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. — Erma Bombeck
A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by… — Henry Grunwald

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