Preposterous Quotes
80 quotes by 72 authors
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Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
— Alvin Adams
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I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
— Alec Baldwin
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Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion,…
— Bob Beauprez
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It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow,…
— Charles Lamb
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to…
— Edward Abbey
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When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going…
— Bayard Rustin
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All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain?…
— C.S. Lewis
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We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy…
— George Will
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CM has always stood for one thing: Chicago Made. Chick Magnet? That’s preposterous. Girls don’t like me. I was born and raised in Chicago. The…
— CM Punk
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Critics of NAFTA and CAFTA warned at the time that the agreements were actually a move toward ... an eventual merging of North America into…
— Ron Paul
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Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark?…
— Edward Abbey
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At first glance, the idea that some UFOs may be vehicles from outside the Earth seems utterly preposterous, the baseless result of wishful thinking by…
— Don Berliner
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And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing…
— Ayn Rand
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The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth.
— Peter Thiel
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It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it…
— Beryl Markham
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February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months…
— Anna Quindlen
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Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of…
— Carlo M. Cipolla
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We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money,…
— Emilio Estefan
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The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
— Boyd K. Packer
Who Wrote These Preposterous Quotes
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