Nonsense Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Men, Skins, Comfortable

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• I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing.

  Margaret Ayer Barnes

  Believe, Differences, Important

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• I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

  Josh Lieb

  Children, Hate, Piano

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• I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Beauty, Ideas, Snow

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Glory, Fame

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• If I owned any of these Hot New Issues that have doubled, tripled, quintupled or umptupled within days and in some cases hours after they were issued, I most certainly would grab my fabulous windfall, thank my lucky stars and invest the money. It's utter nonsense to think any newly issued stock is really worth two, ten or 20 times the [offering] price.... A management so stupid as to sell shares [cheap], and an underwriter so obtuse as not to discern the real value, together would provide reason enough for a sensible man to get rid of his shares.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Stars, Real, Stupid

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• Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

  Mark Twain

  Hard Work, Successful, Blow

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.105, Xist Publishing

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• Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

  Wallace Stevens

  Strange, Relation, Pierce

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.383, Vintage

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• It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

  Oscar Wilde

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• The 'Rise, Rebel, Resist' video is a reflection of the outrage the American people are feeling at the absurd hypocrisy, and overwhelming nonsense and balderdash plaguing Washington D.C. It uses a bit of satire and a bit of wishful thinking to form this powerful amalgam of imagery that nourishes and empowers the living art of the song. Our message is clear: Either these elected officials do their job and protect the rights and lives of ALL Americans or be prepared to face the consequences.

  Otep Shamaya

  Song, Art, Jobs

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