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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.
I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
General Flynn said all the talk about the connections between Trump and his campaign in Russia are nonsense.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
You go through so much with the heartache, the pain, the nonsense, the games, and it's easy to lose sight of the possibility of love.
It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.
I understand your higher and lower tendencies. There is something beyond all of this nonsense. There is a wonderful glitter that you can follow in life.
I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense - I want the director to see what I'm trying to do.
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very stuck in irresponsibility and cultism and all kinds of nonsense.
Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.
Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?
A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.
One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
Normally during the week between Christmas and New Year I'm slumped in a chair in Birmingham, eating, farting and spouting total nonsense.
We must start pushing back against this politically correct nonsense that's destroying our society and culture.
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
People make relegation out to be a fate worse than death but that's nonsense. If the infrastructure is right, clubs can bounce back.
In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.
Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?
I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps
It's not as if I never used to get under pressure. That is nonsense. It's just that my looks gave an appearance, and people didn't think I was tense.
Some have argued that the United States was designed to block majority rule; to be a 'republic, not a democracy.' This is ahistorical nonsense.
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.
It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.
I have a cup of tea in my hand at all times. I have about 10 a day. I don't go for this hipster coffee nonsense. No flat whites for me!
If the pace and the push, the noise and the crowds are getting to you, it's time to stop the nonsense and find a place of solace to refresh your spirit
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.
Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.
For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says 'universal' it just means pure nonsense.
I'm open to anyone who can or has demonstrated that they can effectively market and distribute with the best. It wouldn't hurt if they could put up with my nonsense too.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.
I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they made perfect sense.
Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense.
The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.
My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?
True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.
To the extent that the academy is producing people who are talking utter nonsense, and imagining that it is sophisticated and enlightened - that system is a failure.
In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.
The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense
The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.
A beautiful woman is the best investment in marriage a man can make. And anybody who advises otherwise is talking sheer nonsense.
