RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.
RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful to bring to bear on them anything so tremendous as the wrath of God seems strangely inept
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
It's just plain racism, ... What else can you call it It's not like all 25 players are Latinos, so you can't blame it all on the Latino players. It's just stupidity. It's definitely sad that there are still stupid people like that guy out there.
It's amazing that somebody in Congress that long could be that stupid. If he wanted to make a ton of money, all he needed to do was retire from Congress and become a lobbyist.
I remember when this first came up a couple of years ago. It's so stupid, but it keeps getting worse.
Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.
You can not make all of those mistakes and expect a good team like Steubenville not to make you pay, ... We struggled all night to get anything going offensively, and once we did we either turned it over or had a stupid penalty, so we have to go back to work and correct some things.
Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
When you're young, you're stupid.
For me, it's incredibly fun -- especially once you get, like, a little bit of success. People in Hollywood are loath to tell you when they think that you're being stupid, but your brother's always willing.
It was a stupid political act ... today I deeply regret it but at the time I could not act otherwise. It was a political decision,
Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
I'm smart enough, I'm not just some gladiator or some moron who's going to do something stupid. I definitely take care of my body. I want to still be able to walk my kids to school when I'm not playing football. I'm always going to be smart about it.
I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.
The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.
I hate it, ... The front nine is just stupid. The rough is just ridiculous. I know it's a national title, but it's not the U.S. Open. It was easier at the U.S. Open rough.
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe the former is disturbing,
Beauty and folly are old companions.
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen only to ourselves while we are carrying on a conversation with others as it is to talk to ourselves while we are alone.
That's stupid, because most of these large deals are equity. Look at all of the major transactions, where's the burden If anything (this type of merger) is positive for the balance sheets because it builds your equity base to support the existing debt.
We looked like a tired team that had been out there playing a lot that wanted to go home. We need a few days off. It's sad that you have to play such great games back to back. It's just stupid. To have to play Saturday and Monday the past two weeks .... No one else will do that. It's too much to ask of anybody.
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.
Just before he ascended the gallows following the Nuremberg trials, Hans Frank, one of the top Nazis who controlled Poland, made a statement. He claimed he had little idea, until it was too late, that turning away from God could have such destructive and deadly consequences. 'It was not only because of technical reasons and unfortunate coincidences that we lost the war. It was not just ill luck and treason. Rather God has passed sentence on Hitler. He has passed it on him and his system which we served in a state of mind hostile to God.' He then implored that everything be done to warn others not to follow in his path. 'Not even one step,' he emphasized, since the way he followed was 'the way without God, the road from Christ, and in the final outcome the road of political stupidity, of disaster and death.'
How would you like to be forced all the days of your life to sit beside a stinking, stupid wino every morning at breakfast
You would think the last victim of a burglary would be a marked unit. It shows audacity to do something like this. Audacity or stupidity, I'm not sure which.
I think there is a very real danger among some in the Democratic Party who think that the overreach by the Sensenbrenner bill ... (allows) Democrats to sit back and reap the benefit. If Democrats treat this issue as a spectator sport and sit back and watch and think it's going to fall in their laps, that's going to be a very bad miscalculation. People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid. They're going to know who's on their side.
Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
The only thing I have control over, ... is to try to get our football team to play as well as it can play, and have them realize they are playing against a team which has talent, coaching and tradition. And we are on the road before 110,000 people. Unless you're stupid, you've got to understand that.
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
You can do all those sorts of things. It's sort of mind games and a bit of fun. And if it all comes off, it's wonderful. And if it doesn't come off, you're stupid. It's as simple as that.
There's just a bunch of well-off people who have been very imprudent, even stupid, and they've built their buildings right next to a beach, ... They're asking us to pay for restoring the beach when all we have to do is tell them to move their buildings and the beach will be restored.
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
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