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There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is… — Carl Van Vechten
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel — Paul Fussell
The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I… — Fernando Pessoa
Avatar is the most high tech film in terms of its execution, dealing with essentially a very low tech subject; which is our relationship with… — James Cameron
It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive… — Kenny Smith
King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute… — Immortal Technique
The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks. — Peter McWilliams
Sexcastle is a perfect mix of homage and comedy, action and irony, loving tribute and hilarious send-up of the great, good, and ungodly-bad action movies… — Matt Fraction
The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom. — R C Sproul
The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians,… — J I Packer
If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony. — Paul Valery
Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. — Thomas Jefferson
When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it,… — Mark Twain
Haven't you picked up on the irony of life by now? Things only just happen when you're not ready. When you're ready, you start trying,… — Elizabeth Reyes
The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism. — Harold H. Bloomfield
There was a sort of irony in the fact that these [superhero] characters - many of whom in that period, the Golden Age, had been… — Michael Chabon
The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the… — Christine Todd Whitman
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in… — Cliff Stearns
The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful… — David Foster Wallace
You work and live to meet your daily needs rather than to maximize your potential. You simply exist from day to day, without much passion… — Simon T. Bailey
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that. — Enoch Powell
We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies… — James Wan
We had no irony when it came to girls, though. There was just no time to develop it. One moment they weren't there, not in… — Nick Hornby
There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find. — Jack D. Schwager
The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is. — Masanobu Fukuoka

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