Allison Glock Quotes

Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We don’t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture it would be a shrug. For us, crazy happens. Better to sit back, enjoy the show, and drink the tea

Allison Glock

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• The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Modern
  • System
  • Absurdity

• When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • World
  • Television
  • Fair

• I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Think
  • Say
  • Fair

• My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Justice
  • Fair
  • Fairness

• Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Important
  • Free
  • Fair

• It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Say
  • Fair
  • Prudent

• Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Almost
  • Imitation
  • Absurdity

• If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,Go visit it by the pale moonlight.

  

  Walter Scott
  • View
  • Fair
  • Moonlight

• Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Reason
  • Meaningful

• Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Bad
  • Existence
  • Fantasy

• Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Fear
  • Horse
  • Absurdity

• Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Opinion

• I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Boxing
  • Fair
  • Don't Think

• It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.

  

  Sophocles
  • Escape
  • Fair
  • Sailing

• If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

  

  Euripides
  • Wise
  • Fair
  • Strife

• Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Absurdity
  • Seldom
  • Boldness

• Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wind
  • Fair
  • Sails

• These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Choose
  • Fair
  • Possessions

• So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Means
  • Tried
  • Affirm

• When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Doubt
  • Mercy
  • Lean

• My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Life
  • School
  • Art

• Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

  

  Virginia Graham
  • Luck
  • Tennis
  • Hell

• Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We don’t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture it would be a shrug. For us, crazy happens. Better to sit back, enjoy the show, and drink the tea

  

  Allison Glock
  • Fair
  • Absurdity
  • Southerners