Amusingly Absurd Quotes

#1. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country ... expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.

Theodor Herzl

#2. I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#3. What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

W. Somerset Maugham

#4. Girl in school, she was hot as a two-dollar

John L. Parker Jr.

#5. Punishment creates crime.

Silvia Hartmann

#6. People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.

David Levithan

#7. Amy likes to play God when she's not happy. Old Testament God.

Gillian Flynn

#8. If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers

Robin Williams

#9. The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to open my mouth. Therefore, maybe I should think about talking less.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

John Owen

#11. Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

Lina Wertmuller

#12. And it's only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.

Pico Iyer

#13. The true free-will ain't a matter of choosing one of many choices ...
but of creating variety of options, then deciding the best choice of all.

Toba Beta

#14. I've heard the women in the Refuge talk about how sensual it is when you feed from them."
Naasir shrugged. "Cooperative food is better than noncooperative food"
[ ... ]
"But the Refuge food is too cooperative," he grumbled. "How much blood do they think I can drink?

Nalini Singh