Pure Stupidity Quotes

#1. And therefore a giant hammer of pure stupidity lashed out of the screen and felled me again. I lay mewling, clutching my head with my sweaty hands, whimpering for my Mommy to make it stop. MAKE IT STOP!
But it did not stop. It. Did. Not. Stop.
The Desolation of Tolkien

John C. Wright

#2. Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

Russell Lynes

#3. Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.

Robert J. Shiller

#4. This new thing about liking yourself, I find that absolutely appalling. Anyone who likes themselves, I just can't go too close to them. To me it's pure stupidity. But having some peace with yourself, that's quite a relief.

Carole Bouquet

#5. Writing this, I'm reminded that until I was quite old I too adhered to the romantic cult of madness. I got over it, thank God. Experience has taught me that this particular form of romanticism is pure stupidity, and that madness is the saddest, most dismal thing on earth.

Emmanuel Carrere

#6. For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still times when I think, Uh-oh! I gotta talk to somebody here or I'm gonna go crazy! But I like to be alone. Now I do. I really do. There's a big luxury in solitude.

Jack Nicholson

#7. I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

#8. Man is neither angel nor beast, and the misfortune is that he who wishes to be an angel becomes a beast' (Blaise Pascal).

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. We are all born like Catholics ... in limbo, without religion.

Yann Martel

#10. Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

Simone Weil

#11. Duryodhana tells Dronacharya7 that his own pupil, Dhrishtadyumna8 has planned the deployment (on the Pandava side). They are, on both sides, his pupils, to whom he has imparted the same knowledge. But it depends on them whether they use that knowledge well or for ill.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

Reed Hastings

#13. If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.

Charles Bukowski

#14. They may surprise you. Traumatic events change people. Makes them say and do unexpected things. So

Harper Bliss

#15. Those fateful words We are now at war with Germany, and for several hours felt strangely numb. She tried to phone Pamela

Kate Atkinson

#16. Ron Paul may be the wackiest candidate in the GOP field. But for pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum. In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member, which he reminded me of today.

Rick Santorum

#17. Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

Donald Miller

#19. She'll come, if not today, then tomorrow, but she'll find me. That's the cursed romanticism of all these pure hearts! Oh the vileness, oh the stupidity, oh the narrowness, of these rotten, sentimental souls

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#20. I believe in littering. Waste should not be hidden, but seen.

Cass McCombs

#21. People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.

Paget Brewster

#22. No other person ever has, or ever will have, the unique blend of talents, strengths, and perspective that you have.

Marie Forleo