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Quotes About Ridiculous

Poppyrot and pigwash!
~ Roald Dahl
Fundamentalist science is similar to other fundamentalisms. Lacking humor, charity and some measure of self-doubt, it behaves intolerantly, fanatically and savagely to all heretics. Eventually, like all closed ideological systems, it becomes comical and overtly ridiculous — and that shall be my main demonstration.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Stop it, you SILLY ass!
~ Kenneth Grahame
His attitude, though always bad, has changed since he helped me prep the Pandora charm for Morgan. He thinks I'm falling for her, as ridiculous as that sounds, and he might be tempted to take matters into his hands.
~ Kim Harrison
Lothaire to Trehan: "You are related to me by blood and, like me, are a Dacian royal." "So?" "So that means your ridiculous behavior reflects "upon me." "What are you talking about? My ridiculous behavior?I've done nothing to warrant this summoning, Lothaire. I keep to my library—and to myself. "Exactly. You sit in your room and stroke off to memories of your Bride.
~ Kresley Cole
She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the god of deception and hormones. Young girls are so ridiculous--so predictably easy.
~ Kristin Cast
The only emotional connection of relevance is with my dog. My relationship with my dog, it's ridiculous.
~ Robert Pattinson
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.
~ Voltaire
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
~ Thomas Jefferson
To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.
~ Rowan Atkinson
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante
~ Voltaire
I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas.
~ Richard Dawkins
I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.
~ John Corigliano
In order to establish the true value of a function, one must take it to its limits. And it's clear that yesterday's ridiculous "dissolution into the universe," taken to its limits, is death. Because death is exactly that: the ultimate dissolution of my self into the universe. And hence, if "L" signifies love and "D" signifies death, then L=f(D) - that is, love is a function of death.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Somehow the habit of eating had never appeared so ridiculous to me, and I rubbed my eyes. Presently I realized that my point of view came from having completely lost the desire to live.
~ Yukio Mishima
So he has no head' 'Thats usually what headless means' 'No head at all?' 'Your really not getting the whole headless thing are you?' 'Its just kind of silly even for us...
~ Derek Landy
I try not to underestimate my opponents, no matter how ridiculous their beards.
~ Derek Landy
Valkyrie frowned. "You think this is a trap?" "I don't know," he said, "but I try not to underestimate my opponents, no matter how ridiculous their beards.
~ Derek Landy
This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
~ Antonin Scalia
It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous but rather the studious way we try to hide them and our desire to act as if they did not exist.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the state can be the right means to help those who are poor or living at the margins of society. The state is their enemy, as it is for everyone else.
~ Jeffrey Tucker
Our only hope is to follow the example of Jesus and get back out there, winning people over with ridiculous love
~ Jennifer Hatmaker
I don't mind taking orders from them as has the right to give them, she said, but take orders from that ridiculous bird I will not.
~ Enid Blyton
She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counselors are nothing more than misguided do-gooders with degrees. -Artemis Fowl
~ Eoin Colfer