Quotes About Absurd

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At least, right up to the point where she bit his dick off. 'With her vagina?' I asked, just to be clear. 'Yep,' said St John. 'You're sure?' 'It's not the sort of thing you make a mistake about,' he said. 'And you're sure it was teeth?' 'It felt like teeth,' he said. 'But to be honest, after it happened I really stopped paying attention.

It was hard to ignore that kind of talk, and I worried that people would be misled by the absurd claims and charges

SHAPIRO: This is astonishing. MORGAN: What's astonishing? SHAPIRO: What's astonishing about it is for weeks now, you have been saying that anybody who disagrees with your position is absurd, idiotic, and doesn't care about the dead kids in Sandy Hook. And then when I say that it's a bullying tactic, you turn around and that say I'm bullying you for saying that. It's absurd. It's ridiculous.

In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

The idea that a dissenting minister has to resign every time his views are defeated is absurd because on that basis half the cabinet would resign every week and if an election were called those same ministers would have to urge voters to vote for the government from which they had just resigned.

Why on earth would free people remain prisoners in a cage of absurd laws and regulation, with rigid constraints that humiliate the true needs of the people and their country?

Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain.

The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?

I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man.

In this I resemble God at the moment he created the universe with a single fart.

Hannah Arendt had it right: evil is incomprehensibly banal. The existentialists went her one better: it's also absurd, and terrifyingly so.

Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhere in the middle of one of Hollywood's most absurd and least lamented dead genres, the disaster pic of the '70s. It's a little better than 'Earthquake' but not as good as 'The Towering Inferno,' because it doesn't star Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.

Of course, it's absurd that we trust the Tories with our day-to-day reality, as so many of them don't really inhabit it. Why elect people to run our schools and hospitals who choose not to go to those schools and hospitals?

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.

certain situations, even the most rationally minded people behave in absurd and illogical ways. Nine times out of ten, a person in possession of a remote control will press the buttons harder if the battery runs low. But a nickel cadmium cell isn't like a lemon, and squeezing it firmly won't produce more juice.

Die Psychologie ist schon deshalb zum Scheitern verurteilt, weil wir den absurden Versuch unternehmen, unser Gehirn mit unserem Gehirn verstehen zu wollen.

I think it's absurd to talk about - one time you were outside the system, now you are in the system - no, we fight, the cause of the fight is because the system is bad that we can't get out of it.

The extent to which Americans project their own food qualms and biases onto their pets has lately veered off into the absurd. Some of AFB's clients have begun marketing 100 percent vegetarian kibble for cats. The cat is what's called a true carnivore; its natural diet contains no plants. Moeller tilts his head. A slight lift of the eyebrows. The look says, "Whatever the client wants.

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.