#absurd

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election. ↗

— John Major

#allegedly #come #complete #dancing #disillusionment

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part. ↗

— John Malkovich

#asleep #clueless #how #imagine #most

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#absurd #concerned #died #funny #funny story

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs. ↗

— Steve Martin

#banjo #canyon #comedy #during #i

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#already #nothing #philosopher #said #some

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#aspirations #extraordinary #led #most #reckless

Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis. ↗

— Oswald Mosley

#among #analysis #anyone #clear #consciously

The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#civilization #course #devastating #developed #drifting

I realized at one point that David and I had not made a record together in almost 26 years and I thought that that was absurd because, first of all it had gone so fast, I didn't really realize, neither did David, that it had been that long. ↗

— Graham Nash

#almost #because #been #david #did

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#argue #believing #into #men #them