82 Irrational Quotes for You to Enjoy

Rational anxiety is when you're aware of the source of your anxiety. Like, if I have to host an award show or talk to millions of people on the radio, I'm going to feel anxious, and I know why. Irrational anxiety is when I'm leaving CVS, and there's a car behind me, and I'm wondering if he's following me home. Charlamagne tha God

Home Me You People Anxiety Car Following Rational Host He Feel Like Know Talk Leaving Source Irrational Anxious Wondering Going Behind Your Show Radio Award Aware Why Millions Millions Of People

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior. Chen Shui-bian

Arrogance Behavior Must Demonstrate Refrain Irrational Any

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. Cyril Connolly

Life Fear Become Those Supposed Policemen Irrational Repressed Butcher Publishers

I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country. Damon Albarn

Country Emotion Irrational English

I just think there is so much irrational pessimism in the world. Daniel Hannan

World Think Irrational Just Much Pessimism

Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry. Edward Hirsch

Honor Practice Creation Restore Poetic Both Poetry Rational Sacred True Sought Accompanies Aura Irrational Form Elements Necessary Speech

As commissioner, I will attempt to see that no man is judged by the irrational criteria of race, religion, or national origin. And I assure you, I use the word 'man' in the generic sense, for I mean to see that the principle of nondiscrimination becomes a reality for women as well. Eleanor Holmes Norton

Religion You Man Women Reality Word Will National Sense Assure Criteria See Attempt Generic Well Principle Judged Becomes Commissioner Irrational Race Mean Use Origin

I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to interpret your life pursuant to an utterly irrational dogma, why can't it have a cute mascot? Rock wallabies really are fabulous animals, and in any remotely just world, they would have their own star sign. Elliot Perlman

Life You Pickup World Animals Own Cute Sign Would Fabulous Born Truck Name Like Remotely Rock Dogma Sounds Irrational Any Going Just Taurus Which Prefer Really Your Star Why Interpret Utterly

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. Gunter Grass

Art Puritan Pointless Understand Same Irrational Wonderfully Hard Necessary

It's the irrational things that interest me. Harrison Birtwistle

Me Irrational Interest Things

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational. Hedi Slimane

Fashion Me Purely Somehow Irrational Happily

When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there. Helen Fisher

Love Day You Every Day Overwhelming Control Every Out Gym She Because Irrational Going Romantic Romantic Love Why

I'm irrational about all things creative, and I'm always late! Iggy Azalea

Creative Late All Things About Always Irrational Things

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. Jeanette Winterson

Seriously Think Would Would-Be Foolish Take Very Irrational

I actually have a very real, irrational fear of zombies. Jessica De Gouw

Fear Real Very Irrational Actually Zombies

It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole. John Holdren

Environmental You Balance Yourself Society Kidding Those Only Costs Consumers Exclude Economically Balance Sheets Sheets Irrational Producers Export Large Whole

Your first company is like your first baby.You have this unconditional, irrational love. Julia Hartz

Love First Unconditional Like Irrational Your Company

Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through. Karen Joy Fowler

Time History You Strange School College Living Out High High School High School And College Color Through Bled Look Looked Period Courses Does Least Lot Time Period Left Irrational Gets Often Lens Us Many Actually

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational. Lars Peter Hansen

Alone You Some Rational Simply Announce Concrete Replace Very Get Irrational Far Then Agents Means Notion Things

My mother endlessly told me I was too fat, that I wasn't a patch on my sister. It wasn't much fun growing up with her and her almost irrational social climbing in that huge house of my dull stepfather Hughdie Auchincloss in Washington. Lee Radziwill

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