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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.
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I leave it very open because, at the end of the day, it's one of those things where I shouldn't have to reinforce and state, 'No, I'm a heterosexual' - because that's all nonsense.
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This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
- Privilege
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
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I really don't have time for nonsense.
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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
- Questions
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
- Practice
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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
- People
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People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.
- Night
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The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
- Clever
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
- Europe
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There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense.
- Life
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In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
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There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.
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It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
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