#ironical

Patiesu sapratēju ir tikai maza saujiņa. Dažs labs no tiem, kas klausās koncertā, dziļdomīgi nodūris galvu, patiesībā pārdomā dažādas blēņas vai pārrēķina savus ienākumus un izdevumus. ↗

— Anšlavs Eglītis

#music-lovers #music

The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#again #beginning #came #career #class

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#descent #eye #individual #into #ironically

Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#elected #first #first time #i #ironically

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed. ↗

— Andrew Young

#anyone #because #carter #citizen #considered

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#believe #celebrities #celebrity #comfortably #committing

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#back #before #current #evidence #facts

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#becomes #ironically #longer #look #more

Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music. ↗

— Richard Morris

#awash #ironically #live #music #sacred

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#fiction #ironically #marketplace #must #nonfiction