Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
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Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
Gail Collins
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Manuel Puig
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Being lost is worth the being found.
Neil Diamond
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The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.
Samuel Barnett
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Irony is wasted on the stupid.
Oscar Wilde
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Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?
Joanne Rowling
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I could live a week on one good compliment.
Bill Vaughan
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I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.
Jennifer Garner
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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.
Eben Alexander
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I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
Jane Austen
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In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It feels like a continuation of the Blondie sound. It's very eclectic, ... Our influences are not all musical. We're influenced by art, culture, camp values and irony. That's what puts us away from the rest of the pack.
Clem Burke Blondie
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One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.
Sarah Lacy
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The irony is that Barack Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.
Nat Hentoff
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Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
Henry Louis Gates
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Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.
Chapman Cohen
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When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.
Charles Baxter
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Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to.
Dolly Parton
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For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.
Simon Sinek
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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
Edwin Percy Whipple