Nonsensical Quotes

• Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Ideas, Poetic

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• In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.

  Bill Pascrell

  Fire, Police, Ems

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• Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.

  Rachael Leigh Cook

  Believe, Mean, Mouths

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• Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

  Eartha Kitt

  People, Stressed, Responsible

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• Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

  Anne Rice

  Past, World, Superstitions

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.690, Ballantine Books

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• To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

  Gelett Burgess

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Appreciate

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Believe, Power, Utterance

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  I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Creativity, Healing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

  Rick Warren

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "EXCLUSIVE Rick Warren: 'Flat Out Wrong' That Muslims, Christians View God the Same". Interview with Brandon A. Cox and The Christian Post, www.christianpost.com. March 2, 2012.

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• A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

  Gene Wilder

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

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• Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Reading, Book

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• A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it's not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Sleep, Dental Floss

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• I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

  Mike Pence

  Israel, America, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, individuals with distinct identities and comparable claims on existence. Such words are nevertheless an apt vehicle for conveying the disparate treatment accorded to different groups. Those without status are all but invisible: they are treated brusquely by others, their complexities trampled upon and their singularities ignored.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Important, Identity

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• What a strange, demented feeling it gives me when I realize I have spent whole days before this ink stone, with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever nonsensical thoughts have entered my head.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Giving, Feelings, Ink

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• Politics is work. Hiphop is music. The idea that hiphop, because it makes the body feel good to move to it and it makes the soul feel good to hear out angry young black men, can be transmuted into changing the world is narcotic but nonsensical. Wherever hiphop is ever "going," we can be sure it will not be in a constructive direction, anymore than fashions in the color of cars. And it shouldn't "concern" us in the least.

  John H. McWhorter

  Fashion, Moving, Men

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• I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?

  Murray Leinster

  Happenings

  "Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, ch. 2, p. 22, 1964.

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• In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.

  Erica Jong

  Holocaust, Weight, Way

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

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• Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Common Sense, Nonsense

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about our moral condition. Both thought that religion would become more and not less powerful, emotionally and morally, if the claims of scriptures and religious teachings were taken symbolically rather than literally (whatever 'literally' might mean in the case of claims that are either nonsensical or outdated or historically unsupportable if taken as metaphysical or historical assertions).

  Allen W. Wood

  Religious, Powerful, Teaching

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Goal, Problem, Difficult

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• This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

  Vaclav Havel

  Wise, Confusing, Language

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• Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

  Richard Carmona

  Block, Trying, Parenthood

  "Arizona Effort to Block Contraception Simply Bad Health Policy" by Richard H. Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• That idea is so damned nonsensical and impossible that I'm willing to stand on the bridge of a battleship while that nitwit tries to hit if from the air.

  Newton D. Baker

  Air, Bridges, Ideas

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• The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental 'disease' than you can have a purple idea or a wise space". Similarly, there can no more be a "mental illness" than there can be a "moral illness." The words "mental" and "illness" do not go together logically. Mental "illness" does not exist, and neither does mental "health." These terms indicate only approval or disapproval of some aspect of a person's mentality (thinking, emotions, or behavior).

  E. Fuller Torrey

  Wise, Mistake, Thinking

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