#ironies

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

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Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history. ↗

— William Thomas Green Morton

#decency #ethics #flaws #history #ironies

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

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Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times. ↗

— R.D. Ronald

#cruelty #ironies #life

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

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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

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