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  • A women who knows her true value will only put up with a mans nonsense for so long, you either get right or get left.

    Long   Nonsense   Knows  
  • If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

    "Fictional character: Alice". "Alice in Wonderland", 1951.
  • Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

  • Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you write in a way that is clear, transparent, and elegant, it will reach everyone.

    Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.
  • Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

    Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.17, North Point Press
  • Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.

    Running   Winter   Long  
    James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.21
  • To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty.

    Hero   Enemy   Done  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.48, Manonmani Publishers
  • I am sure the man who powders most, perfumes most, embroiders most, and talks most nonsense, is most admired. Though to be candid, there are some who have too much good sense to esteem such monkey-like animals as these, in whose formation, as the saying is, the tailors and barbers go halves with God Almighty.

    Animal   Men   Half  
    Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1858). “The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts”, p.183
  • I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

    Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.16, New Directions Publishing
  • The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

    Ideas   Energy   Nuclear  
    "'Butting Heads with the Americans Doesn't Do Any Good'". Interview with Christian Schwärgerl and Markus Feldenkirchen, www.spiegel.de. January 29, 2008.
  • The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

    George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.432, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.432, e-artnow
  • The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion from government tyranny. . . But now we're told our children have no right to pray in school. Nonsense. The pendulum has swung too far toward intolerance against genuine religious freedom. It is time to redress the balance.

  • We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

    Noses   Ears   Snuff  
    Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.188, Spectra
  • I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

    Men   Discovery   Years  
  • Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

    Book   Nine   Nonsense  
  • My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.

  • Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and there is no reason to believe that more of them will have any today. As for the idea that cutting regulations will lead to significant job growth, it's just nonsense. It's just made up.

    Jobs   Believe   Cutting  
    "Studies challenge wisdom of GOP candidates' plans". www.washingtonpost.com. October 30, 2011.
  • All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

    Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4349, Delphi Classics
  • Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

  • The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'

  • To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

    Dennis Prager (2016). “A Dark Time in America”, p.8, Creators Publishing
  • I read some gossip thing saying, because I looked really uncomfortable in a paparazzi photo or something, they're like, 'He should get used to it. That's the price to pay if you're getting $12m a movie'. If I'm getting paid $12m a movie I'd walk around naked. That's all nonsense. I don't know who makes that stuff up. Even the price for the first one was nonsense.

    Gossip   Naked   Pay  
  • There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.

    Eye   Men   Excited  
  • I don't like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life and their back stories and all that nonsense, because it never means anything.

    Mean   Stories   Actors  
  • The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.

  • Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

    "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.
  • Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through; that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.

    Beautiful   Pain   Women  
    George Santayana (1968). “Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy”
  • We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense.

    People   Phrases   Use  
    Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas
  • The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

    "John Lydon boosts his Public Image with new album". Interview With Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. May 25, 2012.
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