Ironic Quotes - Page 8

• Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Success, Encouraging, Simple

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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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• I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

  Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott

  Inspirational, Work, Long

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• It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Happiness, Irony, Sometimes

  Alexander McCall Smith (2002). “Morality for Beautiful Girls”, Anchor

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• I drink to forget I drink.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Drinking, Alcohol, Forget

  "Miss Charming's Guide for Hip Bartenders and Wayout Wannabes: Your Ultimate One-Stop Bar and Cocktail Resource". Book by Cheryl Charming, p. 137, 2006.

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• Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Self, Arrogance, Pedestal

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• It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.

  Cesar Chavez

  Vegetables, Justice, Diversity

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• What gets measured gets managed.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Clever, 4 Hour Work Week

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• 'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, Literature

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.18, Bantam

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• Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

  Drake

  Life, Death, Humble

  Song: Moment 4 Life, Album: Heartbreak Drake 2K11: The 2nd Semester

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• I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Goodbye, Children, Stupid

  Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 22, 2008.

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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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• Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

  Barry Humphries

  Memorable, Humor, Laughing

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• Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

  Karl Kraus

  Dog, Moon, Sentimental

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Lyrically I'm very ironic and silly, but I hope I'll touch your heart

  Geri Halliwell

  Silly, Heart

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

  Carl L. Becker

  Men, Belief, Irony

  Progress and Power Lecture 3 (1935)

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• Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

  John Gunther

  Superstitions, Facts, Belief

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• 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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