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Ironic Quotes (page 5)

Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not. Simone Weil
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. J. R. R. Tolkien
And Winterfell? grey granite, oak and iron, crows wheeling around the towers, steam rising off the hot pools in the godswood, the stone kings sitting on their thrones? how could Winterfell be gone? George R. R. Martin
I understand in retrospect that this was my first introduction to a conflict that dominates all our lives: the endless, irreconcilable conflict between the values of Athens and Jerusalem. On the one hand, very approximately, is the world not of hedonism but of tolerance of the recognition that sex and love have their ironic and perverse dimensions. On the other is the stone-faced demand for continence, sacrifice, and conformity, and the devising of ever-crueler punishments for deviance, all... Christopher Hitchens
Raymond Chandler quote: "Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like..."
Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron. Raymond Chandler
Since, on a socio-economic level, there are myriad wrongs that need tobe righted, a major problem for the species seems to be how to assistthe unfortunate, throttle the corrupt, preserve the biosphere, andeffectively organize for socio-economic alteration wihtout theorganization being taken over by dullards, the people who, ironically, are best suited to serving organized causes since they seldom haveanything more imaginative to do and, restricted by tunnel vision, probably wouldn't do it if... Tom Robbins
Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better. William Shakespeare
All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella. Michael is an engine driver. Slightly married a lady of title, and so he became a lord. You see that judge in a wig coming out at the iron door? That used to be Tootles. The bearded man who doesn't know any story to tell his children was once John. J. M. Barrie
Isaac Babel quote: "No iron can pierce a heart with such force as a period put..."
No iron can pierce a heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. Isaac Babel
Richard M. Nixon quote: "To write a novel, you need an iron butt."
To write a novel, you need an iron butt. Richard M. Nixon
Mindy Kaling quote: "Future hipsters will love me ironically."
Future hipsters will love me ironically. Mindy Kaling
Augusten Burroughs quote: "but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely."
but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely. Augusten Burroughs
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain? and the whole world is at your feet. Swami Vivekananda
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can..."
It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it. P. G. Wodehouse
You know what this is?" Lula said. "This here's plane rage."Plane rage isn't allowed. It got taken off the allowed activities list along with eating. If you make a scene they'll hual you off in leg irons." Stephanie said. I'm tired of being stapped in here, too," Lula said. "This seat belt's too tight and it's giving me gas."Anything else?"There's no movie. Janet Evanovich

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