No Nonsense Quotes (page 2)

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• saying
• oneness
• say

We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has. William Goldman

• world
• mindfulness
• education

People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit in his bones, needs work even more than he needs money. An educated man can put up with enforced idleness, which is one of the worst evils of poverty. But a man like Paddy, with no means of filling up time, is as miserable out of work as a dog on the chain. That is why it is such nonsense to pretend that those who have 'come down in the world'... George Orwell

• perfect
• world
• sometimes

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all Nikolai Gogol

• writing
• book
• time

I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she asks, Write what? I say, Books, novels. [...] She's against it, it's not worthy, it's not real work, it's nonsense. Later she said, A childish idea. Marguerite Duras

• life
• fall
• thinking

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me. George Eliot

• busy
• surprise
• queen

..."How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming "Off with her head! Off with--"Nonsense!" said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent. Lewis Carroll

• mind
• value
• ambition

I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object...Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life. In compliance with the... Ayn Rand

• good
• life
• ultimate

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians. Luke Ford

• kindness
• japanese
• irish

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese. John McGahern

• famous
• gets
• get

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash. Anthony Hopkins

• work
• nature
• waste

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. Karel Capek

• marriage
• thoughts
• dangers

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. George Bernard Shaw

• kindness
• adventure
• hand

On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security. Otto Schily

• reality
• chaotic
• others

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic. Joe Rogan