Ironic Quotes - Page 17

• It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.

  Lamar Alexander

  Buddhist, California, Southern

  "Republicans hammer Gore over U.S. policy toward China" by Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. March 10, 1999.

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• It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.

  Mark Hart

  Animal, Great Love, Yards

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.15, Franciscan Media

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• The moment you frame your own awareness within a second level of self -consciousness is the moment your mind is most up for grabs. ... You're safe because you have an ironic distance from the coercive techniques I'm employing. All of them that is, except this one. Are you on your guard yet? Does it feel good? Of course not.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Distance, Self, Feel Good

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• Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary people, are able to change the development of things. That's why they have a very specific ironic sentiment towards power and the figures that represent it. I wanted to translate this irony into the cinematic language.

  Andrey Zvyagintsev

  Believe, Government, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

  Quentin Crisp

  Health, Disease, Irony

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 21, 1968.

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• Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a nuclear - a science that gives us nuclear weapons. This is the ironic character of human history, and of human existence, which I can only explain, if I say so, in Biblical terms. Now I don't mean by this reason that I will accept every interpretation of Christianity that's derived from the Bible as many people wouldn't accept my interpretation. But that's what it means for me.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Character, Mean, Biblical

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The ironic factor that is between the Houthis and al-Qaida, that is, they both have strong anti-American sentiment. For example, the slogan of the Houthis is death to America and death to Israel and God curse the Jews and victory to Islam. And besides that, there is very little in common between al-Qaida and the Houthis as far as ideology goes, but they see themselves as having a common enemy, which is America. And America is in a situation, where the Houthis are fighting al-Qaida quite viciously on the ground, yet now the Americans are allied with Saudi Arabia in strikes against the Houthis.

  Safa Al Ahmad

  Strong, Fighting, Enemy

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• I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of time and the changes in literary taste. The other poets mentioned are my poetic cohort from the U.K. I wrote the piece in situ, as it were, while making a television documentary about World War I in Germany.

  Simon Armitage

  War, Meditation, Germany

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• It all stems from the same thing - which is that when we are face to face - and this is what I think is so ironic about Facebook being called Facebook, because we are not face to face on Facebook ... when we are face to face, we are inhibited by the presence of the other. We are inhibited from aggression by the presence of another face, another person. We're aware that we're with a human being. On the Internet, we are disinhibited from taking into full account that we are in the presence of another human being.

  Sherry Turkle

  Thinking, Faces, Internet

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• Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded, poorly represented in the context of other sciences - ironic as the very foundation of our ecosystems are directly dependent upon fungi, which ultimately create the foundation of soils.

  Paul Stamets

  Ecosystems, Foundation, Soil

  "TEDMED: Can Mushrooms Help the Immune System Fight Cancer? Interview With Paul Stamets, Mycologist". Interview with Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2011.

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• Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.

  Mo Rocca

  Song, Rain, Laughing

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• Relationships are at the core of any political system and economic system - any family - and I think we drifted away from understanding that in our country. The people-to-people level is critical. It is ironic, though - we can text with anybody in the world, we can have a videoconference with anybody in the world, but [there should be] an even higher premium on showing up and getting to know someone.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, People, Irony

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• Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia University, which is ironic isn't it? The guy who did all the coke winds up going to the White House, the guy who didn't do coke goes to Columbia.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Wind, White

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• It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Running, Religious

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• Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.

  Angela Carter

  Taken, Cat, Acceptance

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• It's highly ironic that it was the conservatives on the court who overturned so many statutes.

  Jonathan Turley

  Court, Statutes

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• One ironic legacy of the Clinton administration is the rearming of the American citizenry. Each time Clinton and his friends in Congress threaten another round of anti-gun regulations, the American people respond by stocking up.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Gun, People, Legacy

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• I find it so ironic that all you do, for the earliest part of your life, is try to be like everybody else. And then you turn 30, and you realize all you want to do is distinguish yourself in some way.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Trying, Want, Way

  "Guess Who Loves Cheap Chic? Sarah Jessica Parker". Interview with Bob Morris, www.glamour.com. June 30, 2008.

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• You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're not supposed to break the illusion of this being a film, so I make the actor talk to the audience. Provocation is the principle of the whole film [ Funny Games]. It is very ironic.

  Michael Haneke

  Dog, Hurt, Animal

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• A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even though that's what it's all about.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Writing

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again." So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, School, Emotional

  Source: blogs.idahostatesman.com

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• And an anteater plus a large hungry mutant ant? An ironic way to die.

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Mutants

  Song: New Math, Album: Bo Burnham

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• Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, People

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• It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, People, Care

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