Nonsense Quotes - Page 8

• The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress.

  Gail Carriger

  World, Patterns, Causes

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• It is better to use this available energy for your observation, inner observation. Just watch everything - and it is good because you have nothing much to do. You have not to go here and there and visit people and become a member of the Rotary Club. You are saved from so much nonsense that I felt really jealous of you! Enjoy it! And feel sorry for everybody else! They are poorer and you can become immensely rich. And the art of that richness is witnessing. Witnessing is another name for meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Sorry, Jealous

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• Devotion means for the total; it is never for Rama, never for Krishna. Of course, Rama and Krishna are implied in the total, but it is never for a chosen one. Love is always for the chosen one, devotion is for the whole. So you cannot be a devotee of Rama. If you are for Rama, you are only a lover; and when you are a lover, then competition is bound to be there. Then Krishna will be a competitor, and Christ will be a competitor, and the same jealousies, the same conflicts, and all the same nonsense will follow. It has followed.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Love Is, Competition

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• For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be aware. Somebody insults you - listen to it in full awareness. And you will be surprised - the insult is no more an insult. You may even smile. It does not hurt; it hurts only when received in unawareness. Somebody praises and appreciates you - listen with alertness. And then nobody can persuade you to do foolish things. Nobody can bribe you; flattery becomes impossible. You will smile at the whole nonsense.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, Opportunity, Insults You

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• War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

  John Dos Passos

  Peace, Cancer, Lying

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• There is no hunt in Thanet, nor is there a fox problem. There is no Tooting hunt, no Wandsworth hunt and no Clapham hunt, but we can see foxes on their streets at night. If we want to control vermin we should work out how to deal with that problem. The idea that foxhunting controls the fox population is arrant nonsense.

  Roger Gale

  Hunting, Night, Ideas

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• That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Museums, World

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• To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment and devastation of the resources of nature, is a piece of atavistic nonsense.

  Norman Lamm

  Technology, Men, Order

  Seymour J. Cohen, Norman Lamm (1986). “Faith and doubt: studies in traditional Jewish thought”, Ktav Pub Inc

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• Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? I cannot soon give a solution to these questions ... It was clear that in the United States there was a development not of the best, but of the middle and worst sides of European civilization; the notorious general voting, the tendency to politics... all the same as in Europe. A new dawn is not to be seen on this side of the ocean.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Hate, Ocean, Science

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• What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.

  Saint Basil

  Teacher, Play, Evil

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.133, CUA Press

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• The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If that were the case, we'd live in a perfect world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas, Perfect, Wish

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• I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.

  Errol Flynn

  Twelve, Lines, Reciting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, People, Suffering

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• Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  President, Disappointed, Absolutes

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• To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.

  Ernest Chapman

  Wise, Believe, Two

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• The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.

  Kathy Acker

  Unbearable, Reactions

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

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• Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have been at numerous races where death is present. When a driver dies, the crowd symbolically dies, too. They come to see action at the brink: ultimate risk taking and the display of skill and bravery embodied in the sport's immortals like Nuvolari, Foyt, and thousands of others who operate at the ragged edge.

  Brock Yates

  Sports, Race, Skills

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• Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

  Martin Gardner

  Children, Reading, Hunting

  "The Annotated Snark". Book by Martin Gardner, 1962.

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• In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.

  Athol Fugard

  New York, Flavor Of The Month, Months

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• The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

  George Eliot

  Culture, Obstacles, Opinion

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5933, Delphi Classics

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• He was not only the most brilliant strategist of all our generals, but he had a good political sense. A man of that quality was too difficult for Hitler to swallow for long. At conferences Manstein often differed from Hitler, in front of others, and would go so far as to declare that some of the ideas which Hitler put forward were nonsense.

  Erich von Manstein

  Men, Ideas, Long

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• [...] to judge from the Internet postings that people have sent me, probably most of what you learned [about me] was nonsense.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  People, Judging, Internet

  "The Road to Revolution" by Theodore Kaczynski, 2008.

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• It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Facts, Shame, Substitutes

  "Real Time with Bill Maher", February 08, 2013.

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• In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

  Walter Bagehot

  Book, Writing, Stupidity

  Walter Bagehot (1986). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Miscellany”

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• In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies.

  Jeanine Basinger

  Beautiful, Fun, Writing

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