Absurdities Speech Quotes & Sayings

The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. — Theodore J. Forstmann

Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked. — Mark Kurlansky

Vocabularian (n.) One who pays too much attention to words. In the past I have been accused by various parties of paying too much attention to words. Which is true, I suppose; but what else do I have to pay attention to? Vomiturient — Ammon Shea

Best there is ... past, present and future! Ohhhhh yeahhhh! — Randy Savage

An individualist town councillor will walk along the municipal pavement, lit by municipal gas and cleansed by municipal brooms with municipal water and - seeing by the municipal clock in the municipal market, that he is too early to meet his children coming from the municipal school, hard by the country lunatic asylum and the municipal hospital, will use the national telegraph system to tell them not to walk through the municipal park, but to come by the municipal tramway to meet him in the municipal reading-room, by the municipal museum, art-gallery, and library, where he intends ... to prepare his next speech in the municipal town hall in favor of the nationalization of canals and in increase of Government control of the railway system. "Socialism, Sir," he will say, "don't waste the time of a practical man by your fantastic absurdities. Self-help, Sir, individual self-help, that's what has made our city what it is. — Sidney Webb

Zi, most people in the world have been tricked into believing they're not important. — Hu Yuan Nabe

I'd stayed away for two years. I had to. I knew I shouldn't even be at the summer house, because being there, being near her, I would just want what I couldn't have. It was dangerous. She was the one person I didn't trust myself around. The day she showed up with Jere, I called my friend Danny to see if I could crash on his couch for a while, and he'd said yes. But I couldn't bring myself to do it. I couldn't leave. — Jenny Han

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. — William Blake

I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.' — George Lucas

In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what we are in reality attempting to catch is ourselves. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. — William Faulkner

Family is not a career. It's why you have a career. If you can't be there for the big moments, then why are you doing it? — Jewel E. Ann

Facebook is looking to help you distribute content to who you want to distribute to. Facebook gets a lot better if you put each of your friends into either your 'close friend' or 'acquaintance' list. — Robert Scoble

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible. — Franz Kafka