Irrational Quotes
377 quotes by 316 authors
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I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for being healed.
— Kiersten White
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
— John Maynard Keynes
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When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game?…
— Noam Chomsky
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When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy…
— Salman Rushdie
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational,…
— Abraham Verghese
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I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.
— Dean Koontz
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There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life.…
— David Levithan
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For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.…
— Albert Ellis
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The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this…
— Albert Camus
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The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless…
— Russell Brand
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He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.
— Brandon Sanderson
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My parents had irrational fears of Mexico and assumed that once you crossed the border, drug runners made you swallow a heroin balloon and then…
— Justin Halpern
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I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.
— Khaled Hosseini
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To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Kestilan?" There was that name again. Oliver fought down an irrational surge of jealousy for this mysterious being who took up so much of Petunia's…
— Jessica Day George
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No, but I've never been one for wise ideas," he says. "I believe in irrational, fleeting decisions that keep life interesting. And life needs to…
— Jessica Sorensen
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I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short…
— Graeme Simsion
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Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of…
— Benjamin Graham
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