Quotes About Foolish

You are not doing something foolish, are you?" In fact, she was, but that didn't mean she had to stop glaring.

Sholem was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants, just whatever image he has in mind. But that's not freedom! That's control, or power. Whereas I think Margaux understands freedom to be the freedom to take risks, the freedom to do something bad or to appear foolish. To not recognize that difference is a pretty big thing. p. 19

I think If I were to look for the most foolish Clinton supporter and ask you to give them equal time nationally, I could find you some pretty nutty people who are for Hillary Clinton.

It is foolish to reply on people who can betray and fail you in time of trouble. Only God is our reliable help and protection

Love him she might, but she was not foolish or degraded enough to want to resume a relationship in which she had been treated with such contempt.

The foolish words kept spilling from his mouth, though they seemed to have come from nowhere.

It would be foolish to pretend boredom, she said with some scorn. Surely soon one would be bored in good earnest.

I have gone and done something very silly, Becky, he said, flashing her a grin. I have fallen in love with you. You will think me very foolish, will you not, old friend? I have been fighting it all summer. I don't think you are foolish, Christopher, she said, gazing earnestly back at him. I have loved you for a long time.

dumber than a box full of rocks.

Why do I have so many thoughts, they are driving me crazy. Why am I always going anywhere, instead of somewhere? Listen to me or not, it hardly matters. I'm not trying to be wise, that would be foolish. I'm just chattering.

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

unconscious expectations were simply assumptions based primarily on foolish prejudice, itself likely the product of a lack of thought and experience

A "spirituality" that sees cosmic meaning in the whims of fortune is not wise but foolish. The first step toward wisdom is the realization that the laws of the universe don't care about you. The next is the realization that this does not imply that life is meaningless, because people care about you, and vice versa.

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

It's foolish to let my thoughts wander this way," he said, drawing himself up, "but daydream is the only good thing in life. Everything else is vulgar and empty.

Cowardice and courage are just labels—words invented by foolish men to bolster their egos and denigrate their enemies. In battle we should be cold, clinical, and disciplined. That

He was helpless, and he knew it. But he was too stupid, and too truculent.

Yet do I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.

That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and remind me that I am foolish.