Quotes About Foolish

Yes; but if dryads are foolish they must take the consequences, just as if they were real people, said Paul gravely. Do you know what I think about the new moon, teacher? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams.

It's my fault for not shooting the son of a bitch while he was drinking. I didn't know who he was at the time, but I should have shot him on suspicion. And then I plumb forgot about it all day. I'm getting too foolish to live.

I hope," she said, "that you didn't stay out of some foolish romantical notion." He looked down, staring at the tumbled bedclothes. "Such as?" "Saving my life." He looked up again with a grimace. "Naturally not. I usually throw my houseguests off the cliff.

Love was foolish and inevitable. We were just waiting to be shattered by it. The days were finite, full of awe.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

They were just people. They were too smart and too stupid to be anything else.

The curse of immaturity," he said, "is that the more immature you are the more desperate you are to impress others. An' the less likely you are to do the right thing, the thing that's gonna impress 'em. So you get the teen who likes to rev his engine, drive too fast, all to show what a capable and heroic adult he is. An' all the adults he passes shake their heads an' think, 'What an idiot kid.

Revenge is the foolish stepbrother of justice.

Revenge is the foolish stepbrother of justice. I understood

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.

From personal experience, Kenzo knew about the state of racial equality in America. It was sound in theory, but not in practice. It was a glorious dream, but just a dream. It would never work. It had never worked--not anywhere, not anytime in history--and the US was the only country foolish and hypocritical enough to try.

A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to be foolish in another.

I loved him in a way you can really on do the first time around. It's the kind of love that doesn't know better and doesn't want to - it's dizzy and foolish and fierce.

It's the kind of love that doesn't know better and doesn't want to—it's dizzy and foolish and fierce.

And I remember being foolish enough to think... let's fall in love.

She let herself drift; the crowd sustained her and did not shock her; she loved it because it was life, unknown, thoughtless, foolish life devoted to the thoughtless and foolish goals which bobbed on its surface like colored buoys on a choppy sea.

usually define fear as the thing I feel when the unexpected happens. Anxiety is when I'm doing something that I already know is stupid.

It was foolish to worry about time, of course. Time plays a role when there's someone to keep track of it, to depend on it. And if no-one like that remains, then time, too, stops and disappears.

And only then did I understand how stupid I was.

Truth is truth. If a thousand people believe something foolish, it is still foolish! Truth is never dependent upon consensus of opinion. I have found that it is better to be alone and acting upon the truth in my heart than to follow a gaggle of silly geese doomed to mediocrity.

Do you know why people are prone to make such foolish moral decisions? Because something always whispers to us that our situations are unique: Nobody has ever felt this way before.

They put away their books was only poor girls earning a living, for, though some of the customers would swear that whores do it for pleasure, that is only to ease their own consciences, so that they will feel less foolish when they fork out hard cash for pleasure

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.