Irony Quotes - Page 9

• You see, the secret of the gospel is that we become more spiritually mature when we focus less on what we need to do for God and focus more on all that God has already done for us. The irony of the gospel is that we actually perform better as we grow in our understanding that our relationship with God is based on Christ's performance for us, not our performance for him.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Focus, Understanding, Secret

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• It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently.

  Chris Hedges

  Thinking, Needs, Roles

  Chris Hedges (2011). “Death of the Liberal Class”, p.16, Nation Books

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• In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.

  Whitley Strieber

  Self, Savages, Reptiles

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• In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the ‘West’s’ escalating dominations of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last from all dependency, a man in space.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Men, Self, Space

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• Early in my career, a critic said that I needed to "explain" the irony in my work, suggesting that I needed to add text next to the images to help people understand what I was trying to say. At first I was dismayed that I wasn't making work with a clear enough message. That's when I realized that that was the exact opposite of what I wanted to do - that I wasn't responsible for a misinterpretation of my work, that there should be some ambiguity to it. They either got it, or they didn't.

  Cindy Sherman

  Opposites, Careers, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Oh sure, I have lots of fears. My job is to conquer my fears. The irony of being a performer is that I have huge insecurities. Each of us is responsible for what happens in our lives. When good things happen, we take ownership, but when bad things happen we often don't take responsibility. There are no mistakes or accidents. Consciousness is everything and all things begin with a thought. We are responsible for our own fate. We reap what we sow, we get what we give and we pull in what we put out.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jobs, Mistake, Responsibility

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• It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Economics, Decent, Bases

  Kevin D Williamson (2010). “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

  Bernard Holland

  Motivated, Wells, Unfortunate

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• On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.

  George Will

  Cheerful, Thrones, Sense Of Humor

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• There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Perfection, Joy, Suffering

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• The thing that I come across is that people think that I might actually be super aggressive, want-to-fight type in real life. The irony is that that's just not true, at all.

  Zoe Bell

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• You should never try irony or self-effacing humour.

  Tim Robbins

  Self, Trying, Should

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• When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.

  Mark Hart

  Common Sense, Needs, Praying

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.37, Franciscan Media

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• The further humans move from hunters to horticulturists to agriculturists to urbanisation to industrialists, the further the sacred recedes, first to heaven, then condensed to monotheism and finally it dies in irony.

  Lierre Keith

  Moving, Heaven, Hunters

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• It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

  Ron Suskind

  Kids, Exciting

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• One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.

  Thomas Sowell

  Sacrifice, Selfishness, Doctrine

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• Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Giving, Littles, Psychologist

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• Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

  Sherman Alexie

  War, Soldier, Sentimental

  Sherman Alexie (2012). “Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories”, p.304, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.

  Sherman Alexie

  Country, Xenophobia, Hate

  "Sherman Alexie: Up All Night". "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 4, 2002.

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• Obviously, when I came to do the movie I knew that I was going to have to take my clothes off so I might have worked a little bit harder to keep myself fit. But I think that's the irony of it - you see all these fit and healthy people, and I'm not making any comments on it, but everybody deep down is a f**k up somewhere.

  Daniel Craig

  Thinking, Clothes, People

  "Flashbacks Of A Fool - Daniel Craig interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When people affected by epilepsy are reluctant to expose their condition, the public remains in the dark about it - a tragic irony that has made patient care and raising funds for research more than challenging.

  Lynda Resnick

  Dark, Epilepsy, People

  "Help Us Bring Epilepsy Out of the Shadows" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.

  R. C. Sproul

  Mean, Men, Here I Am

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.33, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I recognized it immediately the first time it happened - the cackle of the crone. It is the sound of a woman who is caught inside the mystery of the universe, in the irony of the angst, in the place ego abhors. Bliss.

  Toni Bentley

  Ego, Sound, Firsts

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• Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

  Henry James

  Ironic, Underestimate, Valuable

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• Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fashion, Two, Mind

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