T Quotes
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“The irony of choice: When you don’t know what you want, you have all the options available. By the time you figure out what you really want, all the options are long gone.”
“The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by hazing.”
“The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.”
Source: Falconer
“The irony of conversing with a stranger is that your individual lives always look very different and personal, but then you strip away the nuances to find a common likeness buried inside of diversity. Take away money and geography and we’re all just flesh and blood and soul. We’re all dealing with sin and forgiveness, love and hate, glory and shame.”
“The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.”
“The irony of excess wealth is that it is either for waste or for others. When you prepare an elaborate meal, you can only fill your stomach and consume no more. Your next benefit will be watching others demolish the dishes appreciatively or otherwise.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“The irony of freedom is that it is harder to find hope and purpose. Now i must come to terms with the fact that anyone i marry won't know my parents. If i ever have children, they won't know their grandparents. It isn't just my own loss that hurts. It's the way it ripples out into the future.”
Source: The Choice: Embrace the Possible
“The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!”
“The irony of having had such a secular upbringing is that I now live in Texas. Oh, the irony. Here in Texas, it is not only acceptable to go to church and have the mythic belief structure of an eleven-year-old—no, we are considered the odd ones out because we don’t go to church... at least that was how it seemed to us in the beginning.”
Source: More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality
“The irony of hell in the minds of the multitude is that the devil must punish the wrongdoers, rather than the good people who have done great deeds in the world.”
“The irony of India's partition is that Muslims wrested Pakistan from the British and retained their hold over Bharat to stymie the Hindus for ever, and that's absurd.”
“The irony of informing nearly naked people in a wilderness setting about the story of naked Adam and Eve eating the fruit of knowledge and inventing the fashion industry due to a sudden need for clothing to hide their shame is not lost on Williams.”
Source: The Wordy Shipmates
“The irony of life emerges when two categories of men give advises regarding contempt for worldly goods. One, the rich, who do not know at first hand, what is poverty and another, the poor, who never know, from personal experience, what is luxury.”
“The irony of life is a twisted game; but my god you learn fast, the ins and outs of how to play your part the best you can.”
“The irony of life
Is our greatest fear is to forget,
Yet it's the only certain fate
That anything has ever met.
We know one day our earth
Will find itself victim to time,
That nothing will be left
To tell of your story or mine,
And still through life we rush
Scrambling for something to remember,
Perish the thought that ash be ash
And not the memory of an ember.”
“The irony of life is that "if you try so hard, you will be hazard and if you try a little, you will belittled.”
“The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.”
Source: The Rose Society
“The irony of life is this: every fusion triggers a schism.”
“The irony of life is we live to work and work to live”
“The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time.”
“the irony of loneliness
is that we all feel it
at the same time”
Source: The Sun and Her Flowers
“the irony of loneliness is we all feel it at the same time”
Source: The Sun and Her Flowers
“The irony of loneliness is we all feel it at the same time
-together”
Source: The Sun and Her Flowers
“The irony of lost love is that a person discovers wisps of wisdom when addressing their bundle of pain and frayed emotions. Relationships that fan out in flames contain learning rubrics in the dying embers.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.”
Source: The Denial of Death
“The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.”
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.”
“The Irony of our society is that, “ Religion is for men and Sanctions for women.”
“The irony of people of this world is that they ignore the living being deserving of respect and they run towards respecting people who have passed away. Meaning that in order for you to get the respect you deserve you have to die.”
“The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men's equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman's child-bearing womb.”
“The irony of prison is that it takes years and years and years to plan an elaborate escape, but all you have is years and years and years.”
“The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.”
“The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet shrink.”
“The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one.”
“The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.”
“The irony of the human condition is that it is the narrow gate to life. Few find it because they are too fearful to look”
“The irony of the human heart is that it’s tormented both by the presence and absence of it’s own soul’s counterpart.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.”
“The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.”
“The irony of the present day is, that, the more human rights jurisprudence seems to be fortified, the more there are human rights violations in newer and newer forms and some recidivism all due to the conflicting deductions of protecting even human rights of offenders. No doubt offenders deserve their rights to be protected, but in cases of serious offenses such as ‘rape’ where the offence is proved beyond all reasonable doubt against the offender and where the offender consciously commits the act while being aware of the justice system in his particular country and prefers to cross the precincts of the law, the question of a lighter punishment vis-a vis the gravity of the offence is a big question.”
“The irony of the present day is, the more human rights jurisprudence seems to be fortified, the more there are human rights violations in newer and newer forms and some recidivism all due to the conflicting deductions of protecting even human rights of offenders. No doubts offenders deserve their rights to be protected but in cases of serious offenses such as ‘rape’ where the offender consciously commits the act while being aware of the justice system in his particular country, prefers to cross the precincts of the law. Worst still, is increasing crime rate of offenses such as rape committed against children and infants.”
“The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.”
“The irony of this more contemporary wave of men seeking confirmation of their status as women is that they seem to abhor the female bodies of natal women, except when they want to wear one and ‘do’ woman better.”
Source: Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism
“The irony or humor of my pieces is never really calculated, but they somehow always end up that way. Humor, especially when dealing with matters of extreme gravity, has a way of toppling set ideas and opening up new modes of interpretation. Furthermore, adding humor tends to shift the power balance.”
“The irony that always amazes me when I see people up in arms about our war against Islamo-fascism is how they don’t understand that the social freedoms they take for granted will be the first casualties of Islamic influence and control. The only social liberal thinkers in the Muslim Arab Islamo-fascist world are dead ones. Women’s freedoms and their protection under the law, freedom of speech, separation of church and state, and other human rights will be the first to suffer. Oh yes, sorry, I forgot. . . there will always be the ACLU to depend on to keep the radical Muslims from taking these rights away. How foolish of me. Almost lost my head there.”
Source: Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America
“The irony was that she wanted to be alone, yet the loneliness was consuming her.”
Source: The Last Day of Winter
“The irony with mainstream atheism is that it does not deny but opposes the existence of God.”
Source: Why I Am a Muslim: And a Christian and a Jew
“The irrational bias of the myth of progress can be seen in the tendency to criticize orthodox church fathers for reading Greek metaphysics into the text, while overlooking Baruch Spinoza's rationalism and Bruno Bauer's Hegelianism on their own biblical interpretation. Is this because "Greek" metaphysics is bad, but "German" metaphysics is good? According to the history of hermeneutics as told from an Enlightenment perspective, if it were not for the pagan Enlightenment, Christians would still be reading Greek metaphysics into the Bible like Augustine and making it say whatever they pleased like Origen. Is it not rather bizarre that this narrative asks us to believe that it took the pagan Epicureanism of the Enlightenment to rescue us from the "subjectivism" of the Nicene fathers, medieval schoolmen, and Protestant Reformers?”
Source: Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis
“The irrational haunts the metaphysical.”