Ridiculous Quotes - Page 5

• Insight makes argument ridiculous.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Argument, Insight

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• I'm funnier now because I'm braver and less full of hate, so everything is even more ridiculous than it was before.

  Roseanne Barr

  Hate

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• It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offense, more people want to hurt us. We are on the offense because people do want to hurt us.

  George W. Bush

  Hurt, People, United States

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. August 2, 2004.

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• A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Hazards, Engagement, Earth

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness.

  Max Beckmann

  Blessed, Philosophical, Eye

  Max Beckmann, Guggenheim Museum Soho (1996). “Max Beckmann in exile”, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum

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• It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Criticism, Criticize

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.238

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• Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

  Mortimer Collins

  Religion, Church, Deities

  Mortimer Collins, F. Percy Cotton (1886). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins”

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• And in these four things, opinion of ghosts , ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear , and taking of things casual for prognostics , consisteth the natural seed of religion ; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments and passions of several men, has grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ignorance, Passion, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• We are now considering legislation based on statistics that include name-calling at public rallies as crimes. Are we going on to the school yards of this country and when two kids get angry with each other and call each other names -- what are we going to do, cart them over to the reformatory or add them to the list of 'hate crimes' perpetrators? This is ridiculous.

  Jesse Helms

  Country, Hate, School

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• Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

  Harry Graham

  Aunt, Sublime, Steps

  'Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes' (1899) 'Equanimity'.

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• I'm not as klutzy as I used to be... I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on camera because I do them in my life all the time.

  Shelley Long

  Cameras, Legs, Purses

  "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler,

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• Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization.

  Greg Bear

  Believe, Technology, Civilization

  Greg Bear (2014). “The Forge of God”, p.246, Open Road Media

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• In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, America, People

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.84, Crown Forum

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• I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

  Carla Gugino

  Mom, Jobs, Kids

  "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

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• Tons of people want to see movies about women but they don't want to make them. I don't know why. I think that's insane because look at some of these big movies like Maleficent, they're huge. It's ridiculous. So, it is really hard but I'm determined to do something about that.

  Maya Forbes

  Thinking, People, Insane

  Source: collider.com

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• I get the greatest joy from just doing anything, being an actor. Doing music, and doing what I love to do. I don't make a huge distinction between comedy and drama. I think the whole point is just trying to be as honest, from moment to moment, as you can be. If you're honest about the material, and the material is ridiculous, then you're in a comedy.

  John C. Reilly

  Drama, Thinking, Joy

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• We know today about nutrition and we know about exercise. There's no reason for anybody to be sick and tired, fat and out of shape -- it's ridiculous! This has got to be taught in the schools. It's got to be taught in kindergarten. That's when kids should first get the idea that the most important thing in your life is your health and your body.

  Jack LaLanne

  School, Kids, Tired

  Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.

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• When you look at February's (2011) deficit spending alone, and the fact that it was larger than what our total deficit spending was in 2007, the proposals that the Senate is sending us simply are ridiculous, because it's not even a solution. It doesn't address the amount of spending that we have in a week's time. We need to get serious.

  Kristi Noem

  Needs, Looks, Addresses

  "Rep. Noem: Senate Budget Proposals ‘Ridiculous’". Fox News Interview, www.newsmax.com. March 11, 2011.

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• You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.

  Angus Young

  Purple, Zeppelins, Saws

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• Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Men, Essentials, Finding Happiness

  "As 30 melhores entrevistas da Playboy: agosto 1975-agosto 2005" by Luiz Rivoiro, (p. 132), 2005.

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• The fact is that much of advertising's power comes from this belief that advertising does not affect us. The most effective kind of propaganda is that which is not recognized as propaganda. Because we think advertising is silly and trivial, we are less on guard, less critical, than we might otherwise be. It's all in fun, it's ridiculous. While we're laughing, sometimes sneering, the commercial does its work.

  Jean Kilbourne

  Fun, Silly, Thinking

  Jean Kilbourne (2012). “Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Jobs, School, Giving

  "Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Memetic Hazards in Videogames - Less Wrong". lesswrong.com. September 10, 2010.

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• It is beyond ridiculous that wolves need to study a human or that they are capable of it.

  L. David Mech

  Needs, Study, Humans

  "International Wolf Center Nominates Picoult's Lone Wolf for Scat Award". March 08, 2012.

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• Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Doctors, Faithful, Priests

  "Knowledge of Hell". Book by Antonio Lobo Antunes, 2008.

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• I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.

  Karl Donitz

  Responsibility, Laughing, Soldier

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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