History Of Nonsense Quotes

#1. It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

Gregory Bateson

#2. Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

Ann Coulter

#3. I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.

Alexander Alekhine

#4. We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.

Peter Akinola

#5. You are you that is truer than true

Dr. Seuss

#6. People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History

Libba Bray

#7. The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.

Ibn Warraq

#8. Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.

Steven Adler

#9. The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

Crane Brinton

#10. I'm on a whisky diet. I've lost 3 days already.

Tommy Cooper

#11. Slow, steady progress is better than fast, daily excuses.

Robin Sharma

#12. Throughout chess history, great debates have raged about the pros and cons of hanging pawns. The debates are nonsense; the answer is cut and dried. If the pawns can be attacked and forced to move forward, they are weak. If they can be defended and remain where they are, they are strong.

Yasser Seirawan

#13. Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.

Kate Atkinson

#14. Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Jim Wallis

#15. Drest had made a careful study of the Discordian philosophy and realized it was the kind of outlandish nonsense that would appeal to the kind of people who made all the trouble in history-brilliant, intellectual, slightly deranged dope fiends and oddball math-and-technology buffs.

Robert Anton Wilson

#16. I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.

Billie Jean King

#17. I've heard of many chocoholics, but I ain't never seen no "chocohol". We got an epidemic, people: people who like chocolate but don't understand word endings. They're probably "over-workaholled".

Demetri Martin

#18. To fall for the notion of a 'double truth' and argue there was one set of truths for reason and another for faith and never the two shall meet made nonsense of the idea of truth itself.

Arthur Herman

#19. The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. I will die for you but i shall never, ever live for you.

Ayn Rand

#21. Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.

Wilhelm Reich

#22. Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

Evita Peron

#23. The reason why truth is so hard to be revealed
is because there are so many current practices
that would soon turn into a great history of bullshit.

Toba Beta

#24. In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

Corbin Bernsen

#25. All comes out even at the end of the day, and all comes out still more even when all the days are over.

Voltaire

#26. If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

Confucius

#27. That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.

Jonathan Harris

#28. Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds

Deyth Banger