Quotes About Nonsense

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.

People do not want truth and honesty, no matter how much we hear such nonsense endlessly repeated. They want their imaginations to be stimulated and to be taken beyond their banal circumstances. They want fantasy and objects of desire to covet and grope after.

Eh, Mijnheer, querenzie tomar la klopje inmensa de la cabeza vefrouvens in forma de ein skoboldash sundae?

That doesn't sound very attractive, laughed Anne. I like people to have a little nonsense about them.

Yaln?zca çok budala insanlar?n sürekli mant?kl? konuÅŸtuÄŸunu biliyor musun?

Oh I know. But feeling is so different than knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times where common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

The use of charm as a tool made her hackles rise. She respected a more direct approach. A battering ram approach. At least one knew where one stood with the battering ram, none of this butter-wouldn't-melt nonsense that could mean yes, no, or maybe.

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

Thomson remarked to a friend that "unless there were a European War to divert the current, we were heading for something very like revolution." He was not alone in feeling this way. "A good big war just now might do a lot of good in killing Socialist nonsense," one army officer confided in a letter, "and would probably put a stop to all this labor unrest.

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

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

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

We have to take things as lightly as we can, so we make the most of every opportunity, and nonsense stands stark and immediate beside horror. It cannot be otherwise, that is how we hearten ourselves

to say that their mental health is not being undermined by bombing is to talk nonsense.

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.' She was crying. I comforted her and she stopped crying. But outside it kept on raining.

Lilit's path was to be prepared by 'sixty women wearing gold crowns, who would fill the river valleys with blood.'" "Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.

You're talking nonsense while making wise and meaningful faces.

Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.