Ironic Quotes - Page 11

• Qhuinn looked at each of the hoods again. How ironic, he thought. Nearly two years ago, an Honor Guard of black robes had been sent to him to make sure he knew his family didn't want him. And now, here these males were, come to draw him into a different kind of fold-- that was every bit as strong as that of blood.

  J.R. Ward

  Strong, Blood, Years

  J.R. Ward (2013). “Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.487, Penguin

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• It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Attention, Wonder, Universe

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.13, Macmillan

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• It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile.

  Meg Rosoff

  Offering, Asking, World

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• I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

  Rob Corddry

  Pieces, Want, Comedy

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• Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

  Sammy Hagar

  Lying, Two, Judging

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• It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor

  Marcia Cross

  Real, Doctors, Kind

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• It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Attitude, Insane World, Self

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• If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

  Paul Beatty

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more you try and explain yourself, the more mixed up things become. Your best friend knows when you're kidding, venting, and tired. He or she knows you and therefore doesn't read into the things you say.

  Francois Mauriac

  Best Friend, Tired, Misunderstood

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• Nothing seems crueler--or more ironic--than these upper crusters who never pay a dime for their high-priced shrinks or reflexology sessions to call those who just want that tumor removed from their uterus a bunch of commies. Well, the revolution is at hand and let's hope all those uninsured commies give the rich such a headache that a whole bottle of Advil won't be enough to take the pain way.

  Michael Moore

  Pain, Hands, Giving

  Michael Moore (2004). “Dude, Where's My Country?”

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• The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Rights, Class, Black

  "The biggest brother" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

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• I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

  Simon Pegg

  Humor, Thinking, Self

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the . . . West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Freedom, Home

  Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London

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• You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

  Doris Egan

  God, Religious, House

  "House / House vs. God". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• But if I were asked to pick one constant, one quality that seems dependable, immutable, endlessly available, I'd say that it was intensity. For nothing in Sicily seems withheld, done half way, restrained or suppressed. There's nothing to correspond to say, the ironic, the cerebral remove at which a Frenchman might consider an idea or a question, or the Scandinavian distrust of the sloppy, emotive response.

  Francine Prose

  Ideas, Quality, Done

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• But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal

  Katherine Applegate

  Mom, Regret, Stupid

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• I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

  Mark Twain

  Hilarious, Inspiration, Dozen

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• The person sending ironic text messages has no idea that their voice does not sound so great in text. There's no dry sense of humor in a text. It comes off as a little bit shitty.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Ideas, Voice, Sound

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always try to look at the episode overall, and try to figure out where I can add something that's a little ironic or self-aware or light because I think that's what makes the show special.

  Meaghan Rath

  Thinking, Light, Self

  Source: collider.com

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• Isn't it ironic that pay, perks, and benefits all cost your company at the bottom line, but authentic recognition, especially when it's most unexpected, costs very little and gives the most impressive return on investment.

  Chip Conley

  Giving, Benefits, Lines

  "The Best $73 I Ever Spent" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2009.

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• I find it bitterly ironic that the bulk of the money a medical-malpractice jury awarded to Terri [Schaivo] for use in making her better instead went into Mr. Felos's pocket to make her dead.

  Wesley J. Smith

  Pockets, Use, Medical

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• It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

  Andrew Solomon

  Voice, Secret, Tone

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• The most annoying thing I found was all the people pretending to be me on MySpace and Facebook. I'm not a member of either, but apparently there is an 'official' Nikki Sanderson MySpace page, complete with rants about how terrible identity fraud is, which is ironic.

  Nikki Sanderson

  People, Identity, Pages

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous.

  DJ Spooky

  Style, Criticism, Culture

  Source: bigthink.com

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