- Nov 07, 2020
Nonsense Quotes
Lines that turn foolishness into wit, or shut it down flat.
This page leans on wordplay and firmness rather than complaint: one line treats sense and nonsense as evolving side by side, almost as a joke about logic itself, while another is a short, blunt refusal to put up with foolishness. For more on sharp thinking, see Know.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump has claimed he knows more about ISIS than America's leading generals. Clearly, this is also total nonsense; he doesn't seem to have done the slightest thing to educate himself about ISIS.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hersh's account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts, and simple common sense.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
- Fraud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most theatre is still really bad. It has to appeal to people who do jobs and have lives. Theatre about theatre is the most awful, terminal nonsense.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some have argued that the United States was designed to block majority rule; to be a 'republic, not a democracy.' This is ahistorical nonsense.
- Nov 07, 2020
We must start pushing back against this politically correct nonsense that's destroying our society and culture.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020