Foolish Quotes - Page 33

• I'd be foolish not to take some of opportunities that are coming my way. We all know this can go away at any moment.

  Kim Kardashian

  Opportunity, Going Away, Moments

  "Kim Kardashian: We Can't Keep Up!". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. January 2, 2011.

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• My parents never had any money. It was cash flow. It flows, and you got your fingers in it for a little while, and it flows away. That's all I know about money. And I don't know, it flows and it's a river, but you can never, ever keep it. As an artist, I can't keep it. But hey, a man who dies with a cent in the bank is a foolish man. So I guess I'm going against the conservators. I'm a spendthrift.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Artist, Men, Cash Flow

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• Right and responsibility go hand in hand. You can't give rights to those who are not responsible. If you want to let your canary out of the cage, the first thing you would do is to kick your cat out of the house. This does not mean you don't love your cat, but he has no right to stay in the house because he can't act responsibly. It would be foolish to wait until he kills the canary and then punish him. You already know the cat can't be trusted. The problem with Muslims is that they too can't be trusted and can't act responsibly.

  Ali Sina

  Love You, Mean, Cat

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction.

  Andrew Skurka

  Communication, Thinking, Two

  Source: ryanjordan.com

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• I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.

  Kevin Costner

  Believe, Thinking, Funny Things

  "Actor-filmmaker Kevin Costner, Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 25, 2012.

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• Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.

  Robert Caro

  Political, Journalism, Reason

  "The Round Table: Fiction, Biography And The Use Of Power". Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, www.robertcaro.com. 1999.

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• I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

  Moliere

  Wisdom, Fun, Fool

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• Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them. If such small indiscretions standing in the debit column of wine's account were added up, they would amount to nothing in comparison with the vast accumulation on the credit side.

  Duff Cooper

  Wise, Silly, Wine

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• The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.

  Jason Mraz

  Ideas, Differences, Making A Difference

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• So many actors spend so much energy trying to remember the lines. It's so foolish. Guys are the worst.

  William H. Macy

  Guy, Trying, Energy

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It doesn't worry me a bit that China and Japan hold so much US debt. In a way, it seems foolish for them to do it because they get lower returns than they might elsewhere. But that is their business.

  Milton Friedman

  Japan, Worry, Debt

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have to be willing to sound foolish. I wanted to write about foolish and goofy love and different relationships. I wanted to write about interracial relationships in a way that does not pretend as if race does not exist.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Love You, Writing, Thinking

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie" by Kima Jones, therumpus.net. June 17, 2014.

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• Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment with an excellent toilet and a well-furnished dogma.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Wise, Art

  "A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin". Book edited and translated by Mirra Ginsburg, 1970.

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• What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, without a mover ; a circle, without a centre ; a time, without an eternity ; a second, without a first : these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not, This folly is infinite.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Art, Atheist, Philosophy

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• A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Wise, Educational, Men

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• Rely upon your own judgment; be true to your own conscience; follow the light that is within you; all outward lights are so many will-o'-the-wisps. There will be those who tell you that you are foolish; that your judgment is faulty; that your conscience is all awry, and that the light within you is darkness; but heed them not. If what they say is true, the sooner you, as a searcher of wisdom, find it out the better, and you can only make that discovery by bringing your powers to the test. Therefore, pursue your course bravely.

  James Allen

  Light, Discovery, Rely Upon

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• Giving your team cover for their cowardice is foolish. Give them a platform for bravery instead.

  Seth

  Team, Giving, Bravery

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• Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.

  John Piper

  Life Is Too Short, Fighting, Long

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• Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one [a god]. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is one, and so I don't believe that there is one. And I think that it is rather foolish that people do think that there is one.

  Peter Atkins

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• It's foolish to go through life bemoaning the fact that you can't have this or that. Twaddle! You can omit certain foods and still enjoy eating.

  James Beard

  Facts, Eating, Certain

  James Beard, Hal Kendig (1993). “James Beard's simple foods”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• A fool and his money are soon partying.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Party

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• A foolish dog barks at a flying bird

  Bob Marley

  Dog, Bird, Flying

  Song: Jah Live

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• Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.

  Francis I of France

  Fickle

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• Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

  John Lubbock

  Mistake, Enemy, Wicked

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• At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

  Menander

  Play, Fool, Should

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