Nonsense Quotes - Page 20

• If you pay too much attention to hate, they win...they bring you down. Too much love in the world to deal with that nonsense. Be positive.

  Justin Bieber

  Hate, Winning, Being Positive

  Twitter post from May 7, 2012

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• Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.

  Jason Statham

  Motivational, Half, Hours

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• A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie to children. It’s not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It’s immoral.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Lying, Believe

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• My English is perfect. I just like to say garbled nonsense to throw people off and keep them from bothering me. Cryptic is cool and it just adds to my mystique. I mean, Cancellara says some wacky stuff in English and nobody makes fun of him.

  Peter Sagan

  Fun, Mean, Cycling

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• Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

  Dr. Seuss

  Cells, Brain, Important

  "Dr. Seuss: American Icon". Book by Philip Nel, p. 38, 2004.

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• Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

  David Remnick

  Pressure, Journalism, Kind

  "David Remnick Looks Back On Tough Decisions As 'The New Yorker' Turns 90". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 18, 2015.

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• All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

  M. F. Husain

  Inspiration, Moments

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• Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions.

  Brian Froud

  Wise, Reality, Connections

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• One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake skin donned from living too closely among society. For those of us who live for the freedom of such a lifestyle, that skin is dry and itchy and ill fitting. From my observances, that skin is much like a callus caused by the pure irritation of being forced to spend so much time with one's fellow man. Thank God I am spared such nonsense.

  Karen Hawkins

  Men, Irritation, Fake

  Karen Hawkins (2012). “The Taming of a Scottish Princess”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense.

  Scott Eastwood

  Bars, No Nonsense

  "Meet Clint Eastwood's Gorgeous Son Scott" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. September 18, 2013.

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• My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.

  Tom Baker

  Believe, Acceptance, Self

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• The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!

  Brian Cox

  Fun, Rights, Religion

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• What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Thinking, Make You Think, Special

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.116, Penguin

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• There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Beautiful, Intelligent, Being Beautiful

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• They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

  Alexander Cockburn

  War, Sick, Firsts

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• What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Fall, Eye, Dark

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• Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

  Benito Mussolini

  Beautiful, Men, Talking

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• I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Talking, America

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• I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

  Thornton Wilder

  Men, Bird, Superstitions

  Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Ides of March: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'

  Dario Fo

  Writing, Breathing, Technique

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• Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal worse than that — romantic pictures of battle, and of the dead and men in uniform and all that. And I did not want to have that story told again.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Artist, Men

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• I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Good Night, Sleep, Desire

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy-and you believe them! It's such nonsense.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Beautiful, Wise, Sexy

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• Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Eye, Men, Race

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mind, Swallowing, Action

  "Revolt in 2100" by Robert A. Heinlein, "Concerning Stories Never Written: Postscript", 1953.

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