Laughably Quotes

#1. Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

L. Neil Smith

#2. Naked service providers are so concerned about helping a client that they are willing to ask questions and make suggestions even if those questions and suggestions could turn out to be laughably wrong. They

Patrick Lencioni

#3. P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low.

Jonathan Gruber

#4. I'm firmly of the belief that your youth should be spent pursuing your passion - not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance, to the max and then beyond. So dream laughably big - and then take an absurdly huge risk or two.

Umair Haque

#5. I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.

Shirley Manson

#6. Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely unentertaining.

David Levithan

#7. Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.

Eric Ries

#8. If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

Arthur C. Clarke

#9. There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

Odell Shepard

#10. War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.

Patrick Ness

#11. Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?

Mikhail Bulgakov

#12. In quiet crevices, life is born over and over again, without witness, without recognition. It happens, feverishly or serenely, fast or slow, and the guardians or propriety remain laughably ignorant.

Mai Al-Nakib

#13. The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#14. Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.

Jacqueline Winspear

#15. There is an emerging scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more intense and more destructive. It turns out that Katrina fits into a pattern that scientists and greens have been trying to warn us about for a long time.

Johann Hari

#16. I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.

Emily Blunt

#17. Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.

Cory Booker

#18. I have nothing to declare except my genius.

Oscar Wilde

#19. It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.

John Adams

#20. When I was in high school, there was a lot of pressure on me. I felt like I had to be perfect.

Troian Bellisario

#21. I urge the husbands and fathers of this church to be the kind of a man your wife would not want to be without.

James E. Faust

#22. There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.

Nikola Tesla

#23. And I don't want to jump out of an airplane - I've done that.

John Slattery

#24. A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

Katie Salen

#25. So tired of Noam and Herod and Sir and Angra and all these arrogant, puppet-master men who hold all the strings and refuse to give them up.

Sara Raasch

#26. Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is
so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

Robert A. Heinlein

#27. The best lies are seasoned with a bit of truth,

George R R Martin