Nonsense Quotes - Page 18

• People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

  Gerry Mulligan

  People, Innovation, Use

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• Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Giving, Distraction, Inhumanity

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• The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Country, Wall, Depth

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• But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

  Nick Hanauer

  Unemployment, Minimum Wage, Littles

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• Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it's nonsense.

  Sunny

  Mean

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• A women who knows her true value will only put up with a mans nonsense for so long, you either get right or get left.

  Harriet Morgan

  Long, Knows, Left

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• After I saw how badly animals were treated to en up in our plates, how bad it was for our health and for the environment, I decided to stop this nonsense and educate others. After all, animals can’t talk and they need people that have notoriety like me to be their voices.

  Georges Laraque

  Animal, Voice, People

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• I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hate, Political, Coward

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2060, Manonmani Publishers

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• We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

  Jack Kerouac

  Moving, Confusion, Leaving

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.219, Penguin

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• If the Army wants witches and satanists in its ranks, then it can do it without Christians in those ranks. It's time for the Christians in this country to put a stop to this kind of nonsense. A Christian recruiting strike will compel the Army to think seriously about what it is doing.

  Paul Weyrich

  Christian, Country, Army

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• There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.

  Gregory Galloway

  Realms, Concepts

  Gregory Galloway (2015). “As Simple as Snow”, p.77, Penguin

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• I originally started it to help me with anxiety & insomnia. It’s already made my life waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better & even with my stage fright. Which I used to think there was no cure for…Last night was the first night I’ve slept 8 hours naturally in my entire life. I felt the best I have in ages. It’s better than any medication or all of the other nonsense I’ve tried.

  Sky Ferreira

  Night, Insomnia, Thinking

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• In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that his nation is great; that a German as such is superior to a Belgian as such; an Englishman, to an Irishman; an American, to a Mexican: merely because the first-named countries are in each case more powerful than their comparatives. And people who have no individual stature whatever are willing to accept this poisonous nonsense because it gives them a sense of importance without the trouble of any personal effort.

  Felix Morley

  Country, Powerful, Men

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• I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

  C. L. R. James

  Ideas, United

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• We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and our European friends and our European non-friends depend on something that comes from the middle east, namely oil.

  Midge Decter

  Light, Oil, Middle East

  "Neo-Cons in Doubt about the War in Iraq". KCRW Podcast "To the Point" with Warren Olney, www.kcrw.com. May 21, 2004.

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• People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine.

  Caprice Crane

  Inspiration, Writing, People

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• I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Work Out, Isolated

  "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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• Man has got to take charge of Man.... Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has no 'take-it-or-leave-it' nonsense. A real education makes the patient what it wants infallibly: whatever he or his parents try to do about it. Of course, it'll have to be mainly psychological at first. But we'll get on to biochemical conditioning int he end and direct manipulation of the brain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Real, Mean

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• OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Disappointment, Light

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.218, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Practice, Finding Yourself, One Day

  Laurence Gonzales (2009). “Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

  Anthony Eden

  Time, Discovery, Succeed

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• Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable. We had behaviorism, Freudian psychology, all of these theories that you learn in psychology. Totally untestable. Now, we can test it, because physics allows us to calculate energy flows in the brain.

  Michio Kaku

  Thinking, Psychology, Brain

  "'It's all because of physics': an interview with Michio Kaku". Interview with Matt Fulkerson, www.theshorthorn.com. February 20, 2015.

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• It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth. This not only causes him to overlook valuable clues to our ancestry, but sometimes leads him into making statements that are arrant and demonstrable nonsense.

  Elaine Morgan

  Moon, Men, Thinking

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• They will do more whether we do what we're doing or whether we don't do what we're doing. And the idea that you could appease them [terrorists] by stopping doing what we're doing or some implication that by doing what we're doing we're inciting them to attack us is just utter nonsense. It's just - it's kind of like feeding an alligator, hoping it eats you last.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Ideas, Stopping, Lasts

  "September 11, 2001: Attack on America". Donald Rumsfeld's remarks during the the U.S. Department of Defense News Briefing, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 13, 2001.

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• Why take chances? It may be nonsense, but does anybody really know? And people have certainly been fascinated by astrology for thousands of years.

  Nancy Reagan

  Years, Astrology, People

  Nancy Reagan (2011). “My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan”, p.61, Random House

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