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I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
Charlie Chaplin
Life
Wrong Thing
Right Moment
Wrong
Suppose
Doing
Ironies
Moment
Right
Thing
It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
Vance Havner
God
Time
Man
Church
Parents
Lose
Lost
Ministry
Find
Put
Name
Him
Were
Very
Ironies
Often
Who
Works
Hardest
Jesus
Last
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
Tallulah Bankhead
Work
Man
Theatre
One-Man
Steady
Steady Work
Only
Count
Tragic
Ironies
Night
One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.
Mary Roach
Time
Book
Writing
Reading
Duty
Research
Others
Books
Maddening
Piled
Reading Books
Shelf
Leaves
Bedside
Review
Pine
Off
Ironies
Little
Little Time
Downstairs
It is one of the great ironies of the American war in Iraq - was that the guys who really got the most out of it were the Iranians. And they have us to thank for that. Yeah, I mean we basically put Maliki in power in 2006, but he has been - he's really not a friend of the United States. He's a friend of the Iranian regime.
Dexter Filkins
War
Great
Power
States
Out
Has-Been
Guys
He
Put
Most
Got
Yeah
Were
Been
Iranian
Iranian Regime
Iranians
Iraq
Friend
Thank
Ironies
American
Regime
Mean
Us
Really
Who
United
United States
Basically
That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet.
Kim Stanley Robinson
Time
Health
Cooking
Care
Edge
Our
Our Time
Also
Health Care
Ironies
Planet
Serious
Right
One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing on the ice and snow, but not the haggard reporters subsisting for three weeks on stadium starches, cheap beer, deadlines, and little sleep.
Mary Pilon
Health
Great
Beer
Sports
Three
Wildly
Athletes
Weeks
Cheap
Haggard
Journalism
Performing
Deadlines
Covering
Ironies
Snow
Reporters
Stadium
Ice
Unhealthy
Little
Shows
NBC
Peak
Olympics
Sleep