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ironic
He's always been excruciatingly careful, which is ironic in his situation. Paul Wolfowitz
ironic want pieces
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
ironic age library
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead. Eric Idle
ironic quite turned
It's quite ironic that it turned out that way, Andre Agassi
ironic sort
It's sort of ironic that it's in Indianapolis ? a little place that we had a little success. Bobby Plump
ironic losing major radio talk
It's ironic two things are going on at the same time. There's a real predisposition in FM radio to entertaining new talk formats, just as they're losing their major talk talent.
ironic wish ministers
I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear. Margaret Thatcher
ironic wish taxation
What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have.
ironic detroit facts
It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work. Philip Levine
wish
He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while. Mark Richt
wish pianist ifs
If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something. Woody Allen
wish care enough
If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly. William James
wish faces impossible
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody. Roald Dahl
wish impossible holes
In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it. Robert Smith
wish my-sister candle
My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true Sara Shepard
wish next anticipation
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. Samuel Johnson
wish literature beginning-middle-and-end
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
wish alternatives life-is
Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living. Saul Bellow
taxation might wonder
Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?
taxation benefits taxes
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. Ralph Waldo Emerson
taxation finance budgets
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome. James Madison
taxation should robbery
Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped. Frank Chodorov
taxation revolution citizens
In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation. Lyndon B. Johnson
taxation way gains
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work. Calvin Trillin
taxation citizens indirect
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without. Albert Camus
taxation bills way
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation. Herbert Hoover
taxation taxes tax-day
No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant. George Washington