Ironically Quotes

#1. We can't always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!

Bill Crawford

#2. Ironically, the possibility that the president dodged his military service has increased his approval ratings with Democrats by 80 percent.

Craig Kilborn

#3. It's as if I died too,' she whispered to herself, 'as if I was born dead.'
Ironically, it was true. Emotionally she knew what her mind did not, beyond logic, beyond reason, as if somehow deep inside she felt what Sarah knew.

Denny Taylor

#4. The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.

Chris Hardwick

#5. True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.

Steve Hagen

#6. The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the world.

Martin Amis

#7. Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.

Blake Shelton

#8. Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

Manuel Puig

#9. The black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#10. And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.

Lauryn Hill

#11. We want to live. THE MANAGER (ironically). For Eternity? THE FATHER No, sir, only for a moment ... in you.

Luigi Pirandello

#12. It's Okay," he answered and smiled ironically. "I should be grateful to the knife that's curing me for being so sharp.

Igor Eliseev

#13. Ironically, I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood. I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer;' I watched it some 20 times as a kid.

Jan Koum

#14. People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with a sense of discovery, and it worries me.

Kevin Hearne

#15. For so much of my life I felt hated and judged when, ironically, it was probably because I spent so much of my time hating and judging others.

Charlene Carr

#16. McKeon: "You know Hauptman is going to deny they had anything to do with it [smuggling]."
"Forty-three million in illegal peltries? Of course they will, just as Mondragon's captain insists the space fairies must have brought them," Honor said ironically.

David Weber

#17. I couldn't remember the cats' names any better than the dogs'. Four of them were named after the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and all I could really recall was that Famine ironically weighed about thirty pounds.

Richelle Mead

#18. Joie de vivre. Joy and life together. It's such an ironically perfect description of you.

Rosamund Lupton

#19. Ironically, the worship of of death as a strategy for coping with our underlying fear of death's power does not truly give us solace. It is deeply anxiety producing. The more we watch spectacles of death, of random violence and cruelty, the more afraid we become in our daily lives.

Bell Hooks

#20. Ironically, really good work often appears to be effortless. People will say, "Why didn't I think of that?" They won't see the years of toil and sweat that went into it.

Austin Kleon

#21. One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

Ethan Hawke

#22. Ironically, many of these people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.

Edward Said

#23. It is not surprising that emotion untutored by thought results in nearly contentless blather, in which--ironically enough--genuine emotion cannot be adequately expressed.

Theodore Dalrymple

#24. If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.

Timothy Keller

#25. Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.

Ann Coulter

#26. The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn't exist. Ironically,

Jerry A. Coyne

#27. One does not like insults yet ironically he is an expert in insulting others. How can this be called a human-behavior?

Dada Bhagwan

#28. Ironically, it seems that it is by the means of seemingly perfunctory daily rituals and routines that we enhance the personal relationships that nourish and sustain us.

Kathleen Norris

#29. Love is a fickle, slippery serpent that coils around its victim when they're least aware and slowly suffocates them by the token fantasy that all it promised ever really existed. Love is a big, fat, fake, and I intend to blow its cover - ironically between the covers.

Addison Moore

#30. The more self-sufficient we are, the less we need others. The less we need others, the less likely we are to form the bonds of true community. Convenience enhances self-reliance, increases ease, and ironically, separates us from real relationships with people who have real needs.

Jeff Shinabarger

#31. Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology. There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.

Alan Cooper

#32. I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary] , and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically.

Amber Heard

#33. Emasculation happens in marriage as well. Women are often attracted to the wilder side of a man, but once having caught him they settle down to the task of domesticating him. Ironically, if he gives in he'll resent her for it, and she in turn will wonder where the passion has gone.

John Eldredge

#34. In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem utterly oblivious to May Day, don't really know what it is - our own history.

Eric Drooker

#35. Ironically, girls who don't think so much about their family and are a little bit self-centred are not only happier themselves but also maintain good relationships with their families.

Farahad Zama

#36. The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to
ironically-fait h!

Ravi Zacharias

#37. The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the world. Ironically, you're the super secret enemy. Whether lay or householder, everyone has that internal enemy.

Robert Thurman

#38. Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.

David Platt

#39. Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#40. Ironically, the more obsessed we are with our selves, the more we neglect our souls.

John Ortberg

#41. If fact, she mothers with such patience and grace that she's elegant, timelessly elegant. Ironically enough, one might even say that she has become forever elegant after all.

Bridget Asher

#42. Ironically, the more we crave to possess and dominate the world and others, the deeper and more unbearable becomes the chasm of our own emptiness.

Stephen Batchelor

#43. Words cannot do justice to a good book, ironically.

Myself

#44. For much of my life I floundered under the excuse of "nobody's perfect," the liberating and over-used phrase that affords guys like me the freedom to pile up sins in a careless and unchecked way. Ironically, being perfect is precisely what we are called to be!

Tarek Saab

#45. Nature (and that includes us) is not made up of parts within wholes. It is made up of wholes within wholes. All boundaries, national boundaries included, are fundamentally arbitrary. We invent them and then, ironically, we find ourselves trapped within them. But

Peter M. Senge

#46. I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

Paul Auster

#47. Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance.

Garry Kasparov

#48. Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.

Eric Alterman

#49. "Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."

Robert Anton Wilson

#50. Marco Rubio is interesting because he checks so many boxes when you think about what a Republican nominee needs. He brings Florida, he's young, he's Hispanic, the Tea Party likes him. But that said, he's got issues, actually surprisingly, ironically, with Mexican-American voters.

Mark McKinnon

#51. I was about to get drawn deeper into the personal lives of not only people, but people I didn't really know. Ironically, those are the kinds of people I like best. I wish I didn't know anybody. I would get along better with them.

Gary Reilly

#52. We wait for the rains to cease, the clouds to part, and the sun to shine before saying life is good. Ironically, it is because we endure the storms that life seems so wonderfully bright at their passing.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#53. Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.

Jean Houston

#54. (On George Eliot's narrative strategy)
It also forfeits the great game of the omniscient narrator, which is to know secrets which none of the characters involved will ever learn, ironically taking their unhappy ignorance to the grave.

Fredric Jameson

#55. Ironically, survey after survey shows that married men are happier and healthier than unmarried men. Oh, and they also have more sex.

Michael Kimmel

#56. I'm a former skydiver, I jumped out of all kinds of things including a hot air balloon. Ironically, once I started skydiving, I felt nervous not having my rig on in case the plane went down because I wasn't used to landing.

Carlos Alazraqui

#57. My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

Joni Mitchell

#58. Ironically, if only because over the years I've known so many - from college deans to studio executives to European expats - who come to Los Angeles aspiring to nothing other than living in Topanga, I wound up there by accident.

Steve Erickson

#59. When you have a person in your life who effortlessly make you feel like the most magnificent entity in the universe, there is only one other who has the power of making you feel less than nothing. Ironically enough, it is always that very same individual.

Carl Henegan

#60. Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.

Sarah Van Arsdale

#61. Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.

Mother Teresa

#62. Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I'm actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

Jenni Schaefer

#63. Ironically, when I've asked my straight friends to join me in hanging a rainbow flag, they answer, 'But someone might think we're gay,' not realizing that is exactly the point. To be mistaken for the oppressed is to momentarily become the oppressed.

Alice Dreger

#64. Sometimes it's easier to live when there is no hope left. A strange sense of freedom ironically fills up the space where earlier hopes lived.

Madhu Vajpayee

#65. Ironically, moral relativists often even pride themselves on being morally superior to others.

Nancy Pearcey

#66. I always liked the unknown. Ironically I familiarized myself with the uncertainty of life. Life can change in any minute of the day. God can turn anything around in a speck of a moment. I know for a fact that everything changes. Nothing stays the same. This too shall pass.

Diana Rose Morcilla

#67. Ironically, we often spend a great deal of time and effort trying to control our external conditions, while letting our internal reactions run wild.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#68. Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes].

David Bowie

#69. Well before physical dependency sets in, one of the first signs of addiction is an inability to, ironically, just say no. Now

Craig Jordan Goodman

#70. Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.

Sarah Strohmeyer

#71. The road to comfort is crowded and it rarely gets you there. Ironically, it's those who seek out discomfort that are able to make a difference and find their footing.

Seth Godin

#72. Misty Sendaria," Silk said ironically. "Sometimes I'm amazed that the entire kingdom doesn't rust shut.

David Eddings

#73. I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.

Amity Gaige

#74. I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric.

Michio Kaku

#75. It isn't easy to understand exactly what she is saying, for one doesn't know whether she is speaking ironically or seriously, it's mostly serious, but sounds ironic. - "Stop interpreting everything!" said K.

Franz Kafka

#76. Ironically, most of my growth has come through struggle.

Paula Heller Garland

#77. Ironically, the expanded means for connecting at one's disposal become limited to seductively entertaining, instantly gratifying, often desperate mimicry of heartfelt contact.

Steven Buser

#78. We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.

Shane Claiborne

#79. As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

George J. Mitchell

#80. 'The Good Wife' has actually been something, ironically, that I've watched since episode one, season one in the U.K. because it came up when I was in drama school. I always watched it. It was kind of like an actor's show.

Cush Jumbo

#81. Ironically, the rise of the Tea Party increased the interventions of the Fed that the movement denounced.

Yanis Varoufakis

#82. The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.

Gabriel Byrne

#83. Ironically, it was only maybe a year prior to Tim calling I had re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and what I took away from it was these very strange, little cryptic nuggets that he'd thrown in there.

Johnny Depp

#84. Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#85. At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

Monica Lewinsky

#86. DePaul's plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and destroyed my career because of my virtues. Which, although few in number, they still found threatening.

Norman Finkelstein

#87. Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is better off as a result.

Robert Higgs

#88. But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.

Quint Studer

#89. 'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.

Adam Pally

#90. All that young people are promised today are the rewards of a shallow materialism and a degree that is defined primarily as a job credential, one that ironically does not even live up to its own claims of guaranteeing either decent employment or a better way of life.

Henry Giroux

#91. Ironically, I remember that not even the pretty girls were exempt from this sick breed of torment. And if they couldn't escape it, what about me?

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#92. We know Roger Ebert loved the 'Sun-Times' and his career as a newspaper columnist. But ironically, it was his illness and losing his voice that caused him to explore another venue.

Bill Kurtis

#93. Ironically, the Democrats' great insistence on the natural equality of all white men prompted them to make a more glaring exception of non-whites. Taking seriously the motto "all men are created equal," Democrats called into question the very humanity of nonwhites in order to keep them unequal.

Daniel Walker Howe

#94. Ironically, this same code had been a plot twist in a mediocre thriller Langdon had read years ago.

Dan Brown

#95. These days, though, tolerance means that you accept the other person's views as being true or legitimate. If you claim that someone is wrong, you can get accused of being intolerant
even though, ironically, the person making the charge of intolerance isn't being accepting of your beliefs.

Paul Copan

#96. Fundamentally, your brain doesn't like or want to believe in randomness. It always believes you have some control, even when you don't.

It may be delusional but we're happier deluded. And delusion ironically makes us perform better on average.

Eric Barker

#97. Ironically, the first full Baskerville biography published by CUP in 1907 was printed in Caslon

Simon Garfield

#98. Choose what you actually want to do rather than what you think will impress people on Facebook. Ironically, when you do this, something amazing happens; what you produce stands a better chance of getting recognition. Not just on Facebook, but in the real world.

Meghan Daum

#99. There's a great documentary on Tupac called 'Resurrection' about the last few years of Tupac's life and how he transformed. And, ironically, how this East Coast rapper became this West Coast icon, back when all that Death Row/Sean Combs stuff was going on.

Marco Rubio

#100. Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

Damian Loeb