Incongruity Examples Quotes & Sayings

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. — Richard Russo

When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door. — Jesse Jackson

All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.' — Whoopi Goldberg

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The charismatic person is attractive because he is whole. If you want to demonstrate charismatic qualities, don't deny any aspect of yourself. Don't shy from the truth. Live with integrity. Do what amuses you. Say what you think. Share what you feel. Don't wait for anyone's permission. Don't seek anyone's validation. — Charlie Houpert

Cleaning only moves the dust somewhere else. — Marty Rubin

It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through — Paul Torday

She's my mate; that makes her mine. Forgetting that will see your neck no longer serving its purpose." "I love it when you talk dirty," she purred. "Give my regards to Lindsay. — Sylvia Day

As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker. — Gustave Flaubert

I can confirm that Poland should become a eurozone country, and not just because of the treaties that have been signed, but because I consider it of strategic interest both for Poland and the E.U. — Donald Tusk

Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable. — Craig T. Nelson

You cannot believe the mayhem! — Lance Russell

The main concern with a very large baby is difficulty in delivery. — Emily Oster

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. — Charles Spurgeon

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle. — Alan W. Watts