#absurdity

The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life. ↗

— Robin Roberts

#back #biggest #career #combination #drill

We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity. ↗

— Clark M. Clifford

#almost #ancient #barbaric #dance #going

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#absurdity #much #poverty

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3) ↗

— Jean Calvin

#calvin #faith #humility #ignorance #knowledge

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. ↗

— Martin Short

#concert #criticized #eccentricity #master #mother

A brick represents all the evil in the world. We should start a War on Bricks. And why not? It’s more tangible, yet just as nonsensical, as the War on Terror.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #evil #tangible #war

And dying is more natural than living, because what could be more unnatural than that panicstricken thing leaping and falling like a last flame beneath the ribs? ↗

— William Golding

#death #life #naturality #death

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors... ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#imagination #literary-theories #imagination

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. ↗

— Bernard Levin

#amount #believe #believing #could #deter

All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#campaigns #change #earth #him #hope