Quotes of: Irony Keyword

Another way to describe the dilemma for religious faith is that pluralism creates social conditions in which God is no longer an inevitability. While it is possible to believe in God, one has to work much harder at it because the framework of belief ...

To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

One notorious named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself the usual thunderous curses—'may his name be forgotten, may his bones be worn to nothing'—along with ...

Hitch-22: A Memoir

And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.

The Coming Storm

...You know, one good apple can spoil the rest,” Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.

Catch-22

Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.

The Goldfinch

The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don't do it.

Housework Blues - A Survival Guide

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Beyond Good and Evil

Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.

The Infinite Sea

Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

Killosophy

Some are convicted for breaking the heart…some are the victims of broken heart – Irony of unrequited love.

Soulmates, By Chance

The more power you have, the less you can truly say. That’s the irony.

Scorched

I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

That was the last cruel irony of Tobias’s life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.

The Lost Herondale

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

Coyote Blue

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

Jess Walter

Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums.

Rick Allen

The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one.

Ryan Lilly

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.

Michael Musto

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

W. Somerset Maugham

In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.

Winona LaDuke