T Quotes
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“The ironic thing about Stormy Daniels and President Trump is had he bragged about his ‘friendship’ with the porn star, he may have been more popular!”
“The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.”
“The Ironman World Championship is the hardest race I've competed in. Not only do the elements (heat, wind, humidity) make it grueling, but the quality of the field makes it a true test.”
“The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.”
“The irony about selling out is that they only call you a sell-out when your stuff finally sells - I've had products bearing my name since I was 14, but nobody was buying them then.”
“The irony and tragedy is any woman of means can have a safe abortion somewhere in the United States. But women lacking the wherewithal to travel can't. There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.”
“The irony here is that the Latino left had criticized the conservative movement for years that they were not doing outreach to the Latino community. Now that the conservative movement is doing outreach and engaging in the Latino community on a national scale, they're criticizing us for that too. You can't have it both ways.”
“The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.”
“The irony here is we're looking for water and we're looking out for water. Without it you die, and with too much of it you die.”
“The irony: I'd been thrilled when Aaron noticed me, and when, tonight, he called me his girlfriend. But on the street, I tried to creep past any other male gazes, ghostlike. That's womanhood, I suppose, both craving and feeling repulsed by attention.”
Source: We Were Never Here
“The irony in any investigation was that lies were often protectors of the truth—unless they became too powerful, in which case lies were like worker bees who turn on their queen.”
Source: The American Agent
“The irony is I did an intimate film in France with no stars and that got me to Hollywood. It got me to the Oscars. If I had tried to imitate the Americans or the Hollywood movies with a commercial recipe, I'd never have gotten to Hollywood. Although, it was not my goal in any way, and I never thought there was any connection between Monsieur Lazhar and the Oscars.”
“The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.”
“The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.”
“The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.”
“The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.”
“The irony is, that a distant relation of mine, once wrote a book which also depicted a monster. Her name was Mary Shelley. That story as I recall, did not end well either.”
Source: The Dumb Dumb's Handbook - To Artificial Intelligence: And It's Part in Your Downfall
“The irony is that food gives me a sense of control, even though it makes me totally out of control. Food is something I can choose, order, have delivered. I sit down, eat, and feel really good in the moment. At its essence, food is nourishing. There is truth in that. The trick is understanding and respecting the line where it crosses over into something unhealthy.”
“The irony is that I don't think we took a step backwards to make 'Group Therapy'. I think we took a step forward because it's a lot more complicated to make that kind of album. I think that album was far more produced than 'American Apathy', and it had a lot more harmony vocals and lots of intricate parts musically speaking.”
“The irony is that I use computers every day of my life to do music because I edit all of my music in a computer. But when it comes to doing live processing, I prefer, as a performer with an instrument, not just having the computer as the only thing I have. I really prefer and find it much more flexible to have the limitations of pedals.”
“The irony is that if we make every imperative into a command to believe the gospel more fully, we turn the gospel into one more thing we have to get right, and faith becomes the one thing we need to be better at.”
Source: The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness
“The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status.”
Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
“The irony is that Iraq actually has one of the richest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world. So many classic American or European foods - ceviche, albondigas, even the mint julep - have roots in Iraqi cuisine, which was a crossroads of Persian and Arab and Turkic traditions. The oldest written recipes in the world are from Iraq!”
“The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.”
“The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.”
“The irony is that my poetry is sad when I’m happy and happy when I’m sad.”
“The irony is that one of the things people want to solve climate change is more market - more price on carbon so that markets have something to chew on when they think about climate change instead of the complete monopoly, the absurdity of allowing these guys to own the sky for free - socialise all of the costs and privatise all of the profits.”
“The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.”
Source: The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming
“The irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit job we don't like. You don't always have to quit, and quite frankly, option two is to try to help others solve the problem that you are struggling with.”
“The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!”
“The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.”
Source: Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts
“The irony is that their enthusiasm for personal revelation can backfire badly and have the opposite effect. People become their own worst enemies and don’t need anyone else’s help in making themselves the brunt of gossip, judgment, and ridicule. A person who overshares demonstrates a lack of dignity, maturity, and discrimination, and it may also be a strong indicator of self-absorbed narcissism and exhibitionism.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“The irony is that we screw up our present moment in the desire to secure our future, but when we fail, we blame the past.”
Source: Quantraz
“The irony is that we've seen this model work really well in Massachusetts because Gov. Romney did a good thing, working with Democrats in the state to set up what is essentially the identical model and, as a consequence, people are covered there. It hasn't destroyed jobs. And as a consequence, we now have a system in which we have the opportunity to start bringing down costs as opposed to just leaving millions of people out in the cold." "Gov. Romney said this has to be done on a bipartisan basis”
“The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way.”
“The irony is that when you set out to remove bias you use your own possibly unconscious biases in deciding what's harmful and what should be done about it.”
Source: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy
“The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this earth to be with Him-and we wonder, indifferently, how much we have to do for Him to get by.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“The irony is that while our world might plead for change, it does its best to suppress it.”
“The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.”
“The irony is this: Our bodies react to stress in exactly the same way whether or not we have a good reason for being stressed. The body doesn't care if we're right or wrong. Even in those times when we feel perfectly justified in getting angry - when we tell ourselves it's the healthy response - we pay for it just the same”
“The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.”
“The irony is, of course, that many of the values that I was raised with, that I think are very important, that I hold dear, are the result of a religious faith.”
“The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned.”
“The irony lies in the dagger he holds, ghameh. A homonym for both dagger and sorrow in Farsi.”
Source: Tajrish
“The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.”
“The irony of abuse is in the abuse of men, it's the women that get abused.”
Source: Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel
“The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.”
“The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.
In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.”
“The irony of being a good person is that you understand a bad person very well.”