Preposterous Quotes

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Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a… — Mary Schmich
Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity… — John Cowper Powys
Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring. The grace of God is preposterous enough… — Mike Yaconelli
Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them up in language… — T. E. D. Klein
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.… — Donald James
The idea that business is strictly a numbers affair has always struck me as preposterous. For one thing, I've never been particularly good at numbers,… — Richard Branson
The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy… — Sheldon Richman
Now Ive got this moniker that Im the foot-in-mouth gal, and I keep thinking, In what way? Because I said something you dont agree with?… — Katherine Heigl
Why, in our culture, do so many discussions of male/female roles seem so painful, unfair, unreal, unfunny, and even preposterous? Â Because of men who demand… — Stu Weber
Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous… — Herbert Spencer
Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous. — Idries Shah
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own… — Jan Struther
Did you ever notice how many survivors they have? Did you ever notice that? Everybody - every time you turn around, 15,000 survivors meet here,… — David Duke
... there is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life ... — Kurt Vonnegut
The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however… — Robertson Davies
"You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows," said the sane person to the poet. "Yet it would be rather beautiful… — Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous. — Walter Abish
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of… — Virchand Gandhi
The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable. — Thomas Huxley
The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of… — B. H. Liddell Hart

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