Inapposite Quotes & Sayings

A divine 'punishment' is also a divine 'gift', if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessing, and the supreme inventiveness of the Creator will make 'punishments' (that is changes of design) produce a good not otherwise to be attained — J.R.R. Tolkien

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body ... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property. — Jack Kevorkian

Perhaps she really wasn't as astute as she should be. She wondered if there was a spell for that. — Charlie N. Holmberg

I was Speaker of the House in Florida, first Republican speaker in 120 years. And I totally dismantled the way this House worked and turned it around to what I believe is right. — Dan Webster

Earlier in the twentieth century some critics called fascism "capitalism with the gloves off," meaning that fascism was pure capitalism without democratic rights and organizations. — Noam Chomsky

Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people's lives. — Rebecca MacKinnon

While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so. — Daniel J. Boorstin

The notion of carefully wrought bullshit involves, then, a certain inner
strain. Thoughtful attention to detail requires discipline and objectivity. It entails accepting standards and limitations that forbid the indulgence of impulse or whim. It is this selflessness that, in connection with bullshit, strikes us as inapposite. But in fact it is not out of the question at all. The realms of advertising and of public relations, and the nowadays closely related realm of politics, are replete with instances of bullshit so unmitigated that they can serve among the most indisputable and classic paradigms of the concept. And in these realms there are exquisitely sophisticated craftsmen who - with the help of advanced and demanding techniques of market research, of public opinion polling, of psychological testing, and so forth - dedicate themselves tirelessly to getting every word and image they produce exactly right. — Harry G. Frankfurt

It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure — Martial

The answer is that the question itself is strictly inapposite. — Anonymous

Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric. — George Will