Irrationally Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even…
— William H. Gass
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Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to…
— Steve Ditko
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Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as…
— John Eliot
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I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.
— Rosie O'Donnell
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I had to overcome many things, many people telling me no. If you want it, and you believe in it, you have to do it.…
— Crystal Reed
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If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.
— Robert F. Almeder
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Golf is the ultimate avoidance activity for the dysfunctional dad. A game so nonsensically difficult, so pointless, so irrationally time consuming, the word golf itself…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally thwarted them; richer…
— Lewis Mumford
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Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
— Andy Hobsbawm
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Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.
— Urie Bronfenbrenner
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There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally.
— I. J. Good
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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.
— Edward Weston
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When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance…
— Peace Pilgrim
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
— Thomas Huxley
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Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless,…
— Truman Capote
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No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Most people don't get lucky. They get human. They get crushes. This means you irrationally mortgage what little logic you own to pay for this…
— Sloane Crosley
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Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source…
— R. D. Laing
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Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous…
— Boris Pasternak
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Now for God's sake, will you two start behaving like a princess and a Courier?" Halt told them. "If you don't, I'll have to think…
— John Flanagan
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