#ironical

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#authority #avoidance #figure #habit #home

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#acquire #always #criticized #had #ironically

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#believe #celebrities #celebrity #comfortably #committing

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time! ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#bit #children #find #free #free time

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#back #before #current #evidence #facts

Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#appealed #fact #first #first thing #great

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music. ↗

— Pat Boone

#did #east #english #english teacher #far

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#enough #gain #ironically #lead #rebelling

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#becomes #ironically #longer #look #more

Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth. ↗

— Anna Friel

#addict #away #baby #because #been