Browsing Topic Best Ridiculous Quotes

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions – you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

Hey, I might move to Texas. If California continues to be this restrictive, I don’t know if this is a good place to live. First of all, it’s extremely expensive — the taxes here are ridiculous. And if they really say that we can’t do standup until 2022, or some shit like that, I might jet.

It is interesting because as a writer you want to heighten how ridiculous things are. But everything he says (Trump) is already so ridiculous that it is hard to heighten it.

Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous.

We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.

It’s curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They’ll promise that they’ll keep Social Security solvent. They’ll promise drugs for old people. They’ll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn’t come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you’re good while you’re on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there’s an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it.

… the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

[Eva Braun] always called him der Führer to us. It was ridiculous, but she never changed that.

You can’t be conscious unless you have variable receptors… When people say the way I see the world is the way it is – that’s ridiculous. We can only see it depending on the quality of our receptors and background.

Reality really is theater. There’s no other way to describe it. It’s all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby – so helpless and so ridiculous.

Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

It’s better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring.

Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.

St. Augustine explicitly warns against a very narrow perspective that will put our faith at risk of looking ridiculous. If you step back from that one narrow interpretation, what the Bible describes is very consistent with the Big Bang.

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

Idea that all the beats are wildly liberal and progressive is ridiculous. You have people thinking for themselves and having certain affinities because of their upbringing and who their family are, their own people who were close to them who fought in these wars and so on. It’s complicated. But they had that ability to continue the conversation.

See how the World its Veterans rewards!A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards;Fair to no purpose, artful to no end,Young without Lovers, old without a Friend;A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot;Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives.And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?That’s like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can’t protect by killing.

As long as American liberals are going to keep announcing that they’re embarrassed for their country, how about being embarrassed by our public schools or by our ridiculous trial lawyer culture that other countries find laughable?

I’d like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won’t perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.

I was absolutely floored as a lot of people are but also I was reunited with ideas that I actually had as a teenager and these are ideas that I had put away as I approached college years because they were ridiculous on the face of it and when you talk to someone about living forever, they just dismiss you out of hand.

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.