Ironic Quotes - Page 10

• Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

  Lord Kelvin

  Horse, Race, Cost

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• Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Writing, Advice, Irony

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1962.

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• Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

  Susan Sontag

  Collecting, Quotations

  On Photography "Melancholy Objects" (1977)

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• I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Wish, Prime, Ministers

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• The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins.

  Ward Lambert

  Mistake, Team, Winning

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• You don't have to be interesting. You have to be interested.

  John M. Gottman

  Interesting

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• Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.

  Ellen Langer

  Knowing, Growth

  Ellen Langer (2010). “Counterclockwise: A Proven Way to Think Yourself Younger and Healthier”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Certainty is a cruel mindset.

  Ellen Langer

  Mindset, Certainty

  Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.24, Ballantine Books

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• What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.

  Ellen Langer

  Wise, Looks, Situation

  Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.33, Ballantine Books

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• The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Enlightenment

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• It was not possible for us to produce the same optimism and the same kind of humour or irony. Actually, it was not irony. Lichtenstein is not ironic but he does have a special kind of humour. That's how I could describe it: humour and optimism. For Polke and me, everything was more fragmented. But how it was broken up is hard to describe.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Broken, Optimism

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• Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Soul, Baptism, Doe

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• It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

  Michael Parenti

  Mean, People, Political

  "Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, 1974.

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• What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

  Rita Dove

  Twilight, Years, World

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• It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.

  Earl Warren

  Inspirational, Names, Liberty

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• A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

  Moss Hart

  Moving, Humor, Self

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none of it pass without interpretation and assimilation, a life full and satisfying - indeed a rival of the religious life.

  Randolph Bourne

  Religious, Feelings, Rivals

  Randolph Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.136, Univ of California Press

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• The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Giving Up, Hard Work, People

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.91, David C Cook

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• The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the windows of strip malls and paints the hypertrophic aisles with bristly-creepy hilarity.

  Stacey Levine

  Creepy, Hilarity, Narrative

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• I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing. Their answer to wealth inequality, do nothing. Health care? Do nothing. Climate change? Nothing. Racism? Doesn’t exist. For a group of people so head over heels in love with self-reliance, they sure do recommend a lot of sitting on their ass.

  Bill Maher

  Self, Racism, People

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• It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than a century, still in the tournament with a chance of being the ultimate winner... Indeed, such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.

  Fred Hoyle

  Fun, Self, World

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• The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Passion, Government, Hatred

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• I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

  Jim Morrison

  Freedom, Thinking, Greatest Fear

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• Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

  Wally Lamb

  Connections, Facts, Twins

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• Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.

  Greg Cox

  Long, People, Work Out

  Greg Cox, Electric Entertainment (2013). “The Bestseller Job”, p.71, Penguin

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