Ironic Quotes - Page 5

• It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Business, Thinking, Unfortunate

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• By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

  Winston Churchill

  Kindness, Inspiration, Generosity

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• If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Needs, Firsts, Parrots

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• This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.

  Harry Reasoner

  Airplane, Different, Extroverts

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• People agree to say that it is rationality and science which have eliminated what is called magic and religion. But ultimately, the ironic outcome of this techno-scientific development is a renewed need for the idea of God.

  Paul Virilio

  Ideas, People, Magic

  Source: ctheory.net

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• It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.

  Rona Barrett

  Soul, Monsters, Finals

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• Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

  Lord Kelvin

  Horse, Race, Cost

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• It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.

  Sarah Hughes

  Athlete, Goal, Mind

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• As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months. How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Home, Years

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• I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Wish, Prime, Ministers

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• The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins.

  Ward Lambert

  Mistake, Team, Winning

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• You don't have to be interesting. You have to be interested.

  John M. Gottman

  Interesting

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• Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.

  Ellen Langer

  Knowing, Growth

  Ellen Langer (2010). “Counterclockwise: A Proven Way to Think Yourself Younger and Healthier”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?

  Sarah

  Thinking, Hustle, Borders

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• Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

  John Gunther

  Superstitions, Facts, Belief

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• Lyrically I'm very ironic and silly, but I hope I'll touch your heart

  Geri Halliwell

  Silly, Heart

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• It is ironic that in the same year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, some would have us ban certain forms of DNA medical research. Restricting medical research has very real human consequences, measured in loss of life and tremendous suffering for patients and their families.

  Michael J. Fox

  Real, Loss, Dna

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• I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Attention, Center Of Attention, Kind

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• The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

  Carl L. Becker

  Men, Belief, Irony

  Progress and Power Lecture 3 (1935)

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• To be honest, I don't watch a lot of TV. It's kind of ironic because I'm on TV.

  Nina Dobrev

  Watches, Tvs, Honest

  "Nina Dobrev". www.seventeen.com. March 3, 2010.

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• You know, I think I understand what you're like now. You're very beautiful and you think men are only interested in you because you're beautiful. But you want them to be interested in you because you're you. The problem is, aside from all that beauty, you're not very interesting. You're rude, you're hostile, you're sullen, you're withdrawn... oh, I know- you want someone to look past all that at the real person underneath. But the only reason anyone would bother to look past all that is because you're beautful. Ironic, isn't it? In an odd way you're your own problem.

  Jack Nicholson

  Beautiful, Real, Past

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• Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophy, Passionate, Produce

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.116, Vintage

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• Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

  Paul Fussell

  Travel, Truest

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• Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Writing, Advice, Irony

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1962.

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• You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.

  Bruno Latour

  Indifferent, Hesitation, Lack Of Faith

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