Sometimes Things Don't Make Sense Quotes

#1. Haikus are easy
But sometimes don't make sense
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Rolf Nelson

#2. You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

Tom Wilkinson

#3. My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

Jon Bon Jovi

#4. I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

Benjamin Carson

#5. There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

Jan Karon

#6. Don't thank me, either of you. I only brought the both of you along so that you could ask all the smart questions and make sense of what they show us.

G. Norman Lippert

#7. I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction.

Akhil Sharma

#8. Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

Deepika Padukone

#9. I can't think offhand of any American poets who have Mandelstam's urgency, but it's a different country and a different time, and I don't think it would make much sense to say that this is something that's "missing" from contemporary American poetry.

Christian Wiman

#10. In terms of sex between same-sex partners, the objection that "the parts don't fit" doesn't make sense on even the most logical level. If the parts didn't work together, frankly, people wouldn't be putting them together.

Kathy Baldock

#11. We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense.

Norton Juster

#12. We're always on a tightrope. We're trying to put together people who don't make sense to be together, talking about issues that are sensitive and controversial. We're mixing dangerous chemicals on a nightly basis.

Bill Maher

#13. 'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

Michael Craig-Martin

#14. Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.

Susan Mallery

#15. I always have more fun when I stay in hostels - you just meet so many more people. A hotel makes sense when you're doing work things, but travelling, you don't really get a feel for a place if you're in a hotel. I find it seems to make it all feel like everywhere else.

Margot Robbie

#16. There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don't have time for hate or negativity in my life. There's no room for it.

Reese Witherspoon

#17. The term "forgive and forget" doesn't make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn't always healthy. But if we forget, we don't learn from our mistakes.

Meg Cabot

#18. And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

Talib Kweli

#19. The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes of people who don't have a high school diploma, don't even speak English, and offer them a home at zero percent down, that doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense.

Ramin Bahrani

#20. Stuff happens. We get lost. We try to control what will happen. We give up. We do things that don't make sense. We search for things in the wrongest of ways. We lose our way, but sometimes, if we're really, really strong, we manage to find our way back.

Jessica Sorensen

#21. If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we'd have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because they're erratic. People do crazy things that don't make sense.

Sara Sheridan

#22. I trust people to be human. Sometimes you do things that make amazing amounts of sense; sometimes you do things that don't make any sense whatsoever.

Lupe Fiasco

#23. Sometimes things just don't make sense. Sometimes we never have answers to these questions.

Corinne Michaels

#24. I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.

Warren Buffett

#25. And maybe I was wasting time trying to make sense of things: sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen.

Marian Keyes

#26. Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't

Bill Whittle

#27. That's something that seems to happen when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are put together, and yet we struggle to make sense of these things somehow. I'm not quite sure why that is; it's something about human nature, I guess.

Kurt Wagner

#28. My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitches to swing at.

Daisy Whitney

#29. Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.

Stephen King

#30. Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up.

Stephen Hawking

#31. The day you realize you don't have to make sense to anyone is the day you start to make sense to you.

Greg Behrendt

#32. When our worries and fears just don't make sense, it's possible we are trusting the part of the brain that doesn't make sense ... it just reacts.

Bill Crawford

#33. Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.

Shannon Hale

#34. It didn't make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don't deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.

Caleb Carr

#35. That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.

Kurt Vonnegut

#36. We all play God every day. When a woman buys a new pair of expensive shoes, she could have spent that same money feeding someone who was starving. In a sense, those shoes mean more to her than a life. We all kill to make our lives more comfortable. We don't put it in those terms. But we do.

Harlan Coben

#37. I went through a phase of eating dinner in the shower because I thought, 'Why don't we do that?' Then I realised, 'Because it doesn't make any sense.' It doesn't save any time, and you can't really get into a steak and baked potato when there's water pouring on you.

Brie Larson

#38. I asked if you was pleased.'
'Course I'm pleased! You think I'd be mad if I wasn't pleased?'
'You don't make a lick of sense,' he says, but he is smiling now and he takes a step closer to me.

Erin Lindsay McCabe

#39. Backstage, Willem is thinking about accidents again. And things that seemingly don't make sense, except they do. Like right out there in the fifth row. All of them, together. That makes sense.

Gayle Forman

#40. I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it could certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.

Scott Lynch

#41. Sometimes the things that make sense in light of eternity don't make sense while we're still walking it out here on earth. Yet we will trust him; yet we will praise him.

Melanie Shankle

#42. Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

Viggo Mortensen

#43. It's meant to be seen rolling so it should be big and readable. Wildstyles on trains didn't make much sense to me when I first started and they still don't today.

Ichabod

#44. I think the dilemma exists because art, among all the other tidy categories, most closely resembles what it is like to be human. To be alive. It is our nature to be imperfect. To have uncategorized feelings and emotions. To make or do things that don't sometimes necessarily make sense.

Brene Brown

#45. A lot of times, the inspiration for a novel is a messy bird's nest of shiny things. Little things that don't make a whole lot of sense or that, no matter how hard you look, cannot be found directly in the finished book.

Molly O'Keefe

#46. Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.

Greg Camp