#ridiculous

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. ↗

— Hu Shih

#another #beauty #become #cornerstone #cultural

People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry. ↗

— John Shimkus

#dependent #find #foreign #foreign oil #import

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses. ↗

— Josef Skvorecky

#book #even #every #everyone #exception

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#ball #band #bomb #carry #certain

You know, in high school I thought Catholicism was funny and sort of ridiculous, but then I also liked it, too. Like, I definitely turned to it in times of trouble. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#catholicism #definitely #funny #high #high school

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#anger #cause #either #fury #great

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long. ↗

— Shannen Doherty

#ashley #before #done #ever #failure

Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel. ↗

— Rebecca Lobo

#i #ridiculous #stuff #travel

All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#letters #love #pessoa #poem #ridiculous

Movies are just ridiculously expensive. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#just #movies #ridiculously