82 Irrational Quotes for You to Enjoy

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me. Margot Robbie

Death Me Wonderful Fear Because Wonderful Things Irrational Going Happening Many Things Gruesome

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread. Martin Rees

Science Dread Advance Irrational Spares Us

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Mission Irrational Century Twentieth Twentieth Century

Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about. Michael Scheuer

Man Enemy Care Worry Worthy About Take Take Care He Soon Him Surely Does Very Irrational Reprehensible Should Bin Activities

Religion is an irrational construct. Michel Onfray

Religion Construct Irrational

What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance. There are periods of booms, bubbles, and manias. These things, if left to themselves, can lead to crashes, to busts, to panics. Nouriel Roubini

Market Exuberance Bubbles Lead Failures Like Periods Understand Left Irrational Crashes Themselves Asset Things Two Need

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard. River Phoenix

When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation... Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art. Robert Gober

Art Faith You Tears Whatever Worship Stations Correlation Some Cross Something Crucifixion Array Blood Up Irrational Taught Being Means Grow Belief Grow Up Symbols

I am never excited to play through a song all the way, because it can reveal more flaws that mean more work. For some reason, I always have an irrational fear that the song will never be finished. Robert Lopez

Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining this denial of reality takes tremendous emotional and psychic energy. Robin DiAngelo

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do. Ron Silver

Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses. Saint Basil

Love God Parents Animals Other Extraordinary Deficiency Superiority Because Irrational Offspring Senses Them Created Reason Who Each Among

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. Sargent Shriver

Attempts Irrational Justify Racists Prejudices Illogical

My job is making irrational people do rational things. Scooter Braun

People Job Rational Making Irrational Things

I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me. Taylor Hanson

Me People Anxiety Before Think Say Bit Would Rises Small Claustrophobic Crowds Never Know Huge Irrational Spaces Little Mean Little Bit Large Groups Large Groups

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware. Tim Wise

Alone Reality People Conspiracy Community Frame Members About Blacks Rather Color Abstract Idea Exercise American Irrational African African Americans Which Social Might Notion Speaks Aware Cops

The importance in what we're seeing in countries around the world is a poorly regulated and poorly functioning private sector using irrational and ineffective medications that result in the emergence of drug-resistance tuberculosis. What we've done is begun a program to rapidly improve infection control in places that are treating TB patients. Tom Frieden

World Result Control Sector Rapidly Seeing Emergence Countries Importance Ineffective Around Private Private Sector Infection Improve Begun Tuberculosis Irrational Done Patients Places Poorly Using Medications Treating Program

What I like to say when you get into something that feels like a bubble or, at least, feels irrational is that you still want to build a company that has a strong discipline, business-building culture. Travis Kalanick

You Culture Strong Discipline Build Say Something Bubble Feels Like Least Still Get Irrational Want Company

I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know. Victoria Pratt

Character You Animal Fear Sometimes No Fear Action Think Approach Respond Would Know Always How Question Lot Quick Times Irrational

While I take no pleasure in others' misfortunes, we've historically made most of our profits from other investors behaving in a panicked and irrational fashion and selling us certain stocks at prices far below their intrinsic value. More volatility equals cheaper stocks, which equals higher returns. Whitney Tilson

Fashion Value Made Other Others Panicked Our Pleasure Intrinsic More Higher Volatility Prices Take Misfortunes Cheaper Investors Most Returns Equals Historically Selling Stocks Behaving Irrational Which While Far Us Certain Profits Below

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