Foolish Quotes - Page 14

• I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins. (this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.) there are times I want to kiss you midsentence. undo the not-doing with one gesture.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Kissing, Track

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.55, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Eye, Men, Excited

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• If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Thinking, People, Frustrated

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.14, Vintage

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• Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Children, Men, Age

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.416, Macmillan

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• What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we're being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others and made to look foolish.

  David Wong

  Believe, Eye, Tears

  David Wong (2012). “This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It”, p.20, Macmillan

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• There is nothing foolish about hope.

  N.K. Jemisin

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• Don't be fooled by strength you can see," he said at last. "Yahweh often hides His power in the simple things, the weak things, and so His strength seems foolish in man's eyes.

  Lynn Austin

  Eye, Simple, Men

  Lynn Austin (2016). “The Chronicles of the Kings Collection: Five Novels in One”, p.83, Baker Books

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• Why does he speak of them that way?" The crow-man wanted to know. "They are humans, just like he is." "I don't think he sees them as just like him." Ally explained. "He is foolish then," said Nawat. "There are more raka than Bronaus.

  Tamora Pierce

  Men, Thinking, Crow

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• Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Compassion, Forgiving, Trying

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• I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.

  Charles Bukowski

  Couple, Doctors, Years

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.152, Canongate Books

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• John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

  Dale Carnegie

  Years, Names, Facts

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• But Noah, you're not supposed to do this, and I can't let you. So go back to your room." Then smiling softly and sniffling and shuffling some papers on the desk, she says: "Me, I'm going downstairs for some coffee. I won't be back to check on your for a while, so don't do anything foolish." She rises quickly, touches my arm, and walks toward the stairs. She doesn't look back, and suddenly I am alone. I don't know what to think. I look at where she had been sitting and see her coffee, a full cup, still steaming, and once again I learn that there are good people in the world.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Coffee, Thinking, People

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• Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

  Bryan Davis

  Broken, Bird, Too Late

  Bryan Davis (2012). “Liberator”, p.141, Zondervan

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• I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do for them what I can, but no more than that. Just as I cannot breathe the breath of another or help the heart of someone else to beat or their bones not to weaken or their flesh not to shrivel, I cannot say more than I can say. And I know how deeply this disturbs them, and it would make me smile, this earnest need for foolish anecdote or sharp simple patterns in the story of what happened to us all, except that I have forgotten how to smile.

  Colm Toibin

  Heart, Simple, Clothes

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• That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Love You, Men

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.4, Booklassic

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• What is illusion? M.: To whom is the illusion? Find it out. Then illusion will vanish. Generally people want to know about illusion and do not examine to whom it is. It is foolish. Illusion is outside and unknown. But the seeker is considered to be known and is inside. Find out what is immediate, intimate, instead of trying to find out what is distant and unknown.

  Ramana Maharshi

  People, Trying, Want

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for it, the backlash against both honest brokers and Palestinians would be immense - 'land for peace' must also bring peace.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Israel, Land, Would Be

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• The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services of one kind or another. But this foolish as well as muddled. It is foolish because left-of-centre parties will always be able to outbid right-of-centre ones in this auction - after all, that is why they are on the left in the first place. The muddle arises because once we concede that public spending and taxation are than a necessary evil we have lost sight of the core values of freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Sight, Attachment

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• People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Religious, Self, Class

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks’ often foolish lending.

  Martin Wolf

  Essence, Creation, Lending

  "The Fed is right to turn on the tap". www.ft.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Now that Mandela has been released from prison we can all admit what has been apparent, that he is not a Tembu tribesman, in fact he is not an African at all. He is quite obviously Chinese. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it makes those who persist in seeing him as a great African statesman look rather foolish.

  Auberon Waugh

  Chinese, Looks, Facts

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• Power always impresses the young and foolish.

  Darren Shan

  Young, Impress

  Darren Shan (2014). “The Saga of Larten Crepsley 1-4 (Birth of a Killer; Ocean of Blood; Palace of the Damned; Brothers to the Death) (The Saga of Larten Crepsley)”, p.61, HarperCollins UK

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• Marriage means handing over yourself, your body, your future, your keeping to the one whom you dearly love, although this person may, in many ways, remain a stranger. This tremendous act of faith is something that can unlock in each lover powers of compassion, generosity, joy, passion, fidelity and hope that no one guessed was even there. That is why the confidence of young lovers is not foolish or arrogant, but an expression of a basic fact in human experience that the greatest of human gifts are set to work only when people are prepared to risk everything and first you risk it before God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Mean, Passion, Expression

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• In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)

  Alvin Plantinga

  Religious, Errors, Guarantees

  Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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• In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.

  Jeannette Walls

  Writing, Thinking, Brave

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