Nonsense Quotes - Page 39

• It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment with their "proportional responses" and all that nonsense.If someone hurts you,mercy and pity must be put aside,You eliminate the enemy.You scorch the earth.

  Harlan Coben

  Hurt, Enemy, Lessons

  Harlan Coben (2010). “Tell No One”, p.39, Hachette UK

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.

  Daniil Kharms

  Absurd, Manifestation, Practicals

  Daniil Kharms, Neil Cornwell (1993). “Incidences”, Serpents Tail

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Squares, Yellow

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.33, Faber & Faber

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can’t have it either. It affects the babies in utero.” “Nonsense,” he said, tossing his long auburn hair over one shoulder. Life would be easier if he wasn’t so damned good-looking. “Why, my mother drank wine every day, and I turned out just fine.” “I think you’re proving my point for me,” I said dryly

  Richelle Mead

  Mother, Baby, Wine

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.16, Kensington Publishing Corp.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Talking, Space, Waste

  6 Copy quote

• It does not make you less of a woman to need a man. To need one to exist, yes, this is nonsense. To need one to give one scope and importance, this is dishonest. But to need a man, one man, to bring joy and passion? This is life

  Nora Roberts

  Passion, Men, Giving

  Nora Roberts (2015). “Summer Desserts”, p.91, Harlequin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Drama, Home

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.259, Oxford Paperbacks

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Discovery, Years

  9 Copy quote

• Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

  Dr. Seuss

  Cells, Laughing, Brain

  "Author Isn't Just a Cat in the Hat" by Miles Corwin in The Los Angeles Times, November 27, 1983.

  128 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.

  Douglas Bader

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "Accelerated Learning in Practice". Book by Alistair Smith, p. 234, 1998.

  94 Copy quote

  Show source

• Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Art, Passion, Winning

  406 Copy quote

• There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

  Arthur Scargill

  Feelings, Unions, Size

  7 Copy quote

• There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the girls eats a sandwich, how she combs her hair, what sort of nonsense she cares about, why she's angry at her father, and what sort of stories people tell about her. The second type of man -- and I am in this category -- can fall in love with a woman only if he knows next to nothing about her.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Girl, Falling In Love, Father

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Dec 18, 2011

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Atheism, Might

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

  76 Copy quote

  Show source

• You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jesus, Easter

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.289, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

  221 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Doe, Watches, Variables

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• in nonsense is strength

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Music, Vocabulary, Misunderstood

  4 Copy quote

• Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better — best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.

  Neil Postman

  Believe, Ignorant, Mind

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card is trumped, falls to pieces and lets himself go to the dogs -- a fellow like that is not a man, not a male. You say he's unhappy -- you know best. But all the nonsense hasn't been taken out of him yet. I'm sure he really believes he's a smart fellow just because he reads that rag Galignani and saves a muzhik from a flogging once a month.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Dog, Smart, Fall

  13 Copy quote

• And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Men, Cases

  4 Copy quote

• What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.

  Scott Adams

  Being Yourself, Believe, Mean

  5 Copy quote

• It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.

  Clive Barker

  Phrases, World, Realizing

  Clive Barker (1984). “Clive Barker's Books of Blood: Volumes One, Two and Three”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Laughter, Men, Suffering

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.36, 谷月社

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object...Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life. In compliance with the dishonesty that dominates today's intellectual field, they call themselves "pro-life".

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Ambition, Pro Life

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.27, Penguin

  9 Copy quote

  Show source