Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Ellison

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.

Tertullian

It is to believed because it is absurd.

Although the story is absurd and at times somewhat humorous, it produces a hateful image of the institution and it is well known that hateful images like this produce feelings of hatred in those who lack a critical sense.

This is absurd and nothing more than the agony of people trying to cling to power. Thousands of people will take to the streets because they cannot be denied a right to choose.

Leo Tolstoy

It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true, I deny the sacrilegious story of a God born of a virgin to redeem the race.

Robert Lantos

It remains more than a bit absurd to me that this scene would garner an R if shot exactly the same but from just torso up, but becomes an NC-17 because the master shot reveals full bodies.

Greg Lukianoff

It's absurd to try to police demeaning speech. That's not what a free society does.

Kele Okereke

It's absurd to think a band is something heroic. There is nothing heroic about being a band or making music. Heroic is doing a job that you hate every day in an office to support your family. It's carrying on in the face of that.

It's absurd to think 97 or 100 people participated in a secret conspiracy. This frightens witnesses, freezes them from testifying and opens the case to all sorts of unfair hearsay.

It's absurd to say getting to the Sweet 16 equates to winning a national title. There's no question Duke's record of the past 15 years is impressive, but how many national championships have they won? Three doesn't equal 10.

It's absurd that nearly a week after the cyclone we still don't know what casualties there are, or the needs of the people.

Paul Stanley

I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility about it. It's absurd that a celebrity could speak out on the economy or politics with no more justification than a hit album or a movie.

Paul Merton

When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean - well, maybe I do - laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot.

Robin McLeavy

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it

Dennis Hastert

unless the federal government adopts New Orleans as its ward and pays all its bills for the next 20 years--an unlikely to absurd proposition--the place won't be rebuilt.

Oscar Wilde

A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.

Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in our heart without God the Creator.

Mike Huckabee

A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event.

Nick Knight

anything could happen. The one good thing to come from this is that (market) forecasting will probably stop forever. Forecasting is absurd in these markets.

T. E. Lawrence

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

Team policy is not to comment on trade rumors, no matter how absurd they may be. But they are frustrating and annoying.

Johnny Depp

It was very exciting, ... It's all very new to me, you know? It's an interesting and fascinating process. There's something very pure about it being from the page, into the air, and onto the recording machine. You have that and you combine that with doing scenes where they're going to mesh these voices together, but you're doing a scene with people you've never even met before, which is slightly absurd but kinda great.

It was absurd to place the Taiwan independence movement in a scenario of 'monkey cries on both banks behind my boat',

Richard Hatch

It was absurd in the spring, and it's still absurd,

David Harsanyi

It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'

Brandon Lee

God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.

Barbara Kingsolver

Our plans are small and somewhat absurd.

Charles Schumer

This process is getting a little more absurd the further we move,

Baruch Spinoza

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

Louis Jourdan

When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them.

Christine Vachon

The only way we can do what we do is to be absurdly optimistic,

John Major

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.