Top 100 Ironically Quotes
#1. What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.
Parker Palmer
#2. Let's take the figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. One feminist project could be to give the killjoy back her voice. Whilst hearing feminists as killjoys might be a form of dismissal, there is an agency that this dismissal rather ironically reveals. We can respond to the accusation with a yes.
Sara Ahmed
#3. Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music.
Richard Morris
#4. Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.
Thom Yorke
#5. If someone says to you, "The main problem in your life is not what's happened to you, not what people have done to you; your main problem is the way you've responded to that" - ironically, that's empowering.
Timothy Keller
#6. Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#7. Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings.
Jim Gaffigan
#9. Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not expire. It takes conscious work to undo them. Ironically, as long as we keep using defenses, we actually maintain the original force of the fear.
David Richo
#10. Some people say Larry the Cable Guy's only successful because he's pandering to the lowest common denominator, blatantly and not ironically exploiting people's racist and homophobic tendencies. Don't listen to these people, Larry. They're just bitter and jealous and right.
Greg Giraldo
#11. Ironically enough, why I got into politics is because I came to the conclusion that if you wanted to save the world, which in my mind was through the environment, those elected officials seemed to be the ones who made a lot of the important decisions, if not the most important decisions.
Mike Quigley
#12. Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through economic globalization, that makes them vulnerable.
Joel Bakan
#13. Mommy, I know you're done with psychology" - ironically she confused the word "Scientology" with "psychology" - "in here," she said, pointing to my head. "But you have to be over psychology in here." And then she touched my heart with her finger.
Leah Remini
#14. Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man's most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.
Steven Solomon
#15. Ironically, one of the clearer threats to consumer privacy is the government's largely unchecked ability to collect your sensitive information without due process.
Marsha Blackburn
#16. Ironically, in life, you sacrifice everything you love in the name of love"~ the motto of the romance novel Cupcakes and Cologne.
Doina Moulin
#17. Ironically the very energy, the very basis of how we know what we know, has been reliant on having an energy source [necessary] to build rockets to go to the moon and Mars, to support airplanes that fly, and satellites to give us our communication.
Sylvia Earle
#18. The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.
Martin Rees
#19. Ironically, he'd yet to leave a good impression. First he'd spilled soda on her, next she'd seen him almost involved in a riot, and then this morning she'd believed him to be either lazy or an idiot.
Nicholas Sparks
#20. I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter.
Fred Astaire
#21. A meaningful life is made up of a series of daily acts of decency and kindness, which, ironically, add up to something truly great over the course of a lifetime.
Robin S. Sharma
#22. Ironically, for the mega-rich, recession brings with it the ability to live well at a lower cost and with less of a hassle.
Jamie Johnson
#23. Im sure he was wearing it ironically. Besides, wearing an ascot doesn't make someone gay.I give him a look like 'Wow, so homophobic'.
Jenny Han
#24. Sometimes we don't discover our purpose until the darkest moments strip us of everything and all we are left with is brokenness and heartache. It is in these moments, ironically, when hope becomes our strength and carries us
Danny Gokey
#25. Homosexuality is the sexual plague of a monogamous society gone promiscuous. These societies that sow the winds of heterosexual freedom ironically reap the whirlwind of homosexual perversion.
John W. Miller
#26. Scepticism, ironically, draws its life's blood from claims to have a good deal of knowledge. For example, your friends claim to know, 'Since every possible option has not been explored, nothing can be said for certain.' That statement is itself a claim to knowledge!
William Lane Craig
#27. This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.
{Comment on German scientist Eduard Buchner who later ironically won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery}
Adolf Von Baeyer
#28. What an interesting contrast between us, even just in the consideration of one woman. Your complete disregard for her will ironically be your destruction, while my regard for her will be my triumph over you.
T.K. Naliaka
#29. Finally, the cold was a major factor - as stated previously, initially no one wanted to leave the warmth of the interior of the ship to sit in a boat, out on the dark ocean, in the freezing cold. Without a sense of urgency, who could blame them? Ironically,
Henry Freeman
#30. Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.
Alice Lowe
#31. Ironically, it was because I was raised as a Muslim in the South, that I realised the value in being true to who you really are. I've just got so many things going on inside. I don't know how to resolve all of them other than being true to who I am.
Noureen DeWulf
#32. Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.
Don Kates
#33. Ironically, by struggling so hard to circumvent the prophecy of his death at the hand of his son, Laius became instrumental in its coming to pass.
Carrie Ryan
#34. Everyone just wants to be like that Somebody else. Ironically, that Somebody wishes to just be like everyone else. If this is achieved, however, individuality is annihilated.
Ufuoma Apoki
#35. Ironically, many people can't afford to give precisely because they're not giving. If we pay our debt to God first, then we will incur His blessing to help us pay our debts to men. But when we rob God to pay men, we rob ourselves of God's blessing.
Randy Alcorn
#36. Ironically no one ever wants to hear what I have to say about anything. They usually argue with me to the point I want to put them through a wall. Hopefully you won't be so dense. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.
Richard Lugar
#38. The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
Akio Morita
#39. Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.
Douglas Adams
#40. I was not the only young nurse to be acutely conscious of a heightened sex appeal when in uniform. Ironically, the draconian old sisters and matrons who rigidly enforced the uniform seemed to be unaware of the effect it had on the male sex.
Jennifer Worth
#41. Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are, and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.
Gretchen Rubin
#42. ironically the term tolerance is used to justify intolerance toward Christianity.
Nancy Pearcey
#43. To discern what is truly essential we need space to think, time to look and listen, permission to play, wisdom to sleep, and the discipline to apply highly selective criteria to the choices we make. Ironically,
Greg McKeown
#44. Its true that love doesn't come easily.
Its equally hard to just let it go.
Ironically, its just not in your hand.
Heenashree Khandelwal
#45. When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.
Tullian Tchividjian
#46. Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
Jerry B. Jenkins
#47. Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.
Anna Friel
#48. Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
Calvin Trillin
#49. The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'
Neale Donald Walsch
#50. Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations.
Oscar Arias
#51. Ironically I think this is what sparked my interest in and passion for the NOAH, which is capable of creating all these old weird and wonderful sounds.
Geoff Downes
#52. Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful.
Frans De Waal
#53. Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second, we'll mess up royally and ruin everything. Ironically, our paranoia only serves to make us more conscious of our sinfulness.
Judah Smith
#54. Moral of the story: Mortify yourself - when you are at your lowest, you feel ironically self-confident!
Felicia Day
#55. Ironically, the only people anyone believes these days are the skeptics.
J.S.B. Morse
#56. I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.
Criss Jami
#58. The most painful emotions are better than none at all. Ironically, we make you human.
Kelsey Sutton
#59. Ironically, the word "borderline" has become the most perfect expression of my experience - the experience of being in two places at once: disordered and perfect.
Kiera Van Gelder
#60. right" will have little to do with being found out. Ironically, you'll find that as you care less about what others think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves and their worlds, including their
Stephen R. Covey
#61. Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.
Bethenny Frankel
#62. As our net worth falls, so does our self-worth. Ironically, it's when we don't have it that we most feel we have to flaunt it ...
Suze Orman
#63. President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
Andrew Young
#64. I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.
Dan Savage
#65. People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.
Kevin Brockmeier
#66. Our youth are not failing the system; the system is failing our youth. Ironically, the very youth who are being treated the worst are the young people who are going to lead us out of this nightmare.
Rachel Jackson
#67. The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
Ernest Hemingway,
#68. Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.
(Waterstones Trafalgar Square)
Waterstones
#69. Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.
Craig Groeschel
#70. Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements
Albert Bandura
#71. Her full name is Eva Morelli Stein Hathaway. She retains her surnames not because they define her, but because she defines them; that is, except for the first--Morelli. Ironically it is the one she's least familiar with...
Maryann D'Agincourt
#72. The Thief who Couldn't Get Away
I knew a man who didn't come to see his children for years ...
how inept a thief he was to rob from himself like that
... Ironically, his punishment for this
was that his children loved him anyway ... and
it broke his heart
Merrit Malloy
#73. You must be open and influenceable; then ironically, you will also discover an increase in your own power to influence
Stephen R. Covey
#74. Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and I would just keep them in my head.
Craig Finn
#75. Owning a business is NOT about working your ass off for the sake of trying to squeeze out a living. It is NOT about making tons of money at the expense of losing tons of life. It IS about maximizing life, bettering your life and the lives of others, which, not so ironically, fattens your purse.
Mike Michalowicz
#76. In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
Alain Badiou
#77. Ironically, I am reliably informed that Michael McIntyre doesn't actually have a "man drawer", and invented the concept in order to ridicule ordinary people, for whom he has nothing but haughty contempt.
Stewart Lee
#78. Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
Pat Boone
#79. I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.
Amy Chua
#80. If I'm not barefoot, you'll probably find me with a pair of New Balance on. And I'm not one of those hipster-jump-on-the-band-wagon-ironically-cool NB fans. I've been rocking those kicks since they were true nerd shoes. Since the '80s, yo! Word.
Reid Scott
#81. Ironically, I don't like having cameras in my face.
Margot Robbie
#82. I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
Adam Arkin
#83. Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.
Lindsey Buckingham
#84. And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable ... you ironically increase ... the probability of getting what you want.
Michael Neill
#85. Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would only rear its head more strongly. By the very [attempt] of trying to erase the memory of Michael Myers, [the teenagers] were going to ironically bring him back into existence.
Dennis Etchison
#86. Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#87. Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.
Norman Doidge
#88. Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn't get all its oil from OPEC.
Warren Farrell
#89. Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called a miracle. The miracle, ironically, is that we don't die. The cessation of the body is an illusion, and like a magician sweeping aside a curtain, the soul reveals what lies beyond.
Deepak Chopra
#90. Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.
Carlton Cuse
#91. What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
Abraham Verghese
#92. Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.
Richard Carlson
#93. Ironically, the study of animal cognition not only raises the esteem in which we hold other species, but also teaches us not to overestimate our own mental complexity. We
Frans De Waal
#94. Many people think you get career stability by minimizing all risk. But ironically, in a changing world, that's one of the riskiest things you can do.
Reid Hoffman
#95. But ironically the believers have done worse in exploring the earth than sons of men who are not even believers have done.
Sunday Adelaja
#96. Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself.
Timothy Keller
#97. Ironically, the very brokest people in America, Hispanic immigrants, are one of America's last great cash crops.
Matt Taibbi
#98. Ironically, our desire to clean ourselves actually minimizes the problem of uncleanness. It assumes we can give ourselves a good enough scrubbing to get a little holy before we meet the Holy One.
Edward T. Welch
#99. Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
Maajid Nawaz
#100. You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the rules more than a bit before you throw them out. You only internalize values by butting up against external values for a while.
Richard Rohr
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