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Quotes About Foolish

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.
~ LeVar Burton
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell.
~ lewis c s iv
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
~ Herodotus
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
~ V. S. Naipaul
If people want to believe that the organic food has better nutritive value, it's up to them to make that foolish decision. But there's absolutely no research that shows that organic foods provide better nutrition.
~ Norman Borlaug
Oh, a heart's a poor choice to follow. It's so easily hoodwinked.
~ Janette Oke
Ich najlepsze historie opowiadajÄ… o nierozwa?nych, o oryginaÅ'ach, którzy zostali ukarani. No bo tak: tak wÅ'aÅ›nie jest i nikt nie po wie, ?e jest inaczej.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.
~ Jean Rhys
Shakespeare," he thought as he scribbled away. "Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived.
~ Jeanette Winterson
No one else was there, with the weather like this. If I still lived there, I'd be indoors too. It's a visitor's privilege to be foolish.
~ Jeanette Winterson
You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.
~ Louise Colet
The Bible says that God uses the foolish things and the base things of the world to accomplish His work. He apparently uses the tone deaf of the world to do something too.
~ Dominic Balli
We've been the foolish country for so long with this free trade, but it's not free trade because it's - you know, just doesn't work. I mean, it's not working. You look at the deficits we have.
~ Donald Trump
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
~ Gloria Swanson
I'd be foolish not to take some of these opportunities that are coming my way.
~ Kim Kardashian
Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.
~ Eric Kripke
I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
~ Danny Boyle
We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.
~ LeVar Burton
Fools are easily fooled.
~ Unknown
I was beginning to understand how the Irish mentality worked. The more foolish, illogical or surreal one's actions were perceived t be (and mine surely fell into one of these categories), the wider the arms of hospitality were opened in salutation.
~ Unknown
Tuo kalastaja on höperö, hänellä on meriheinää päässä.
~ Tove Jansson
Dianthe wanted her to be the hero, the hardened flyer doing her part to win the war. But she wasn't a hero. She was a romantic. A foolish one, probably, giving up everything for the boy she loved.
~ Unknown
He started out foolish and lazy and ended up foolish and crooked.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.
~ Patrick O'Brian