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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it. — Edward Abbey

Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. — Mary Ann Shaffer

The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously preposterous. — Richard Thaler

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions. — Roger Chamberlain

The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth. — Peter Thiel

Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable. — Brandon Mull

The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous. — Robertson Davies

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters. — Tommy Lee Jones

But this whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it. — Herman Melville

There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life ... — Kurt Vonnegut

The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that. — Boyd K. Packer

To dare it; to get away with it, to enter on preposterous adventures in your own, but newly named, skin. — Alice Munro

In love, no question is ever preposterous. — Andre Brink

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous. — David O. Russell

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous. — Idries Shah

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore. — George Packer

A metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another. — Max Black

The less support an idea has,the more fervently it must be believed in, so that a totally preposterous idea requires unflinching faith. — Soren Kierkegaard

The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable. — Thomas Huxley

OK, I've made a preposterous amount of money. But I was born with the attributes needed to do it. — John Caudwell

To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation. — Charlie Chaplin

All this seems preposterous. But in fact one lapse of judgment can quickly create a situation in which only foolish choices are possible. — Marilynne Robinson

In every opportunity, question your beliefs. Don't forget that most of the beliefs are preposterous empty stories! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. — Emil Cioran

Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried? — Jane Pauley

What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly. — Mike Yaconelli

The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous. — James Cook

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help. — Alvin Adams

Not the least charm of this tableau is that it can be so easily dismissed as preposterous. — Charles Simic

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The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there. — James Gray

Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason. — Philip Sidney

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,
He knew not what to do, and so he read. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination. — George Tyrrell

It is preposterous to think that we are peaceful when every day we spend more money to built killing machine than to educate our children. — Debasish Mridha

Give in to your passions and they will lead you to the most preposterous conclusions - passions make a fool of reason. — Christopher Moore

Like Puck I like it best when things turn out preposterously. — Marty Rubin

Predictions are preposterous. — Jackie Mason

If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window. — Thomas Huxley

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems. — Alec Baldwin

Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous. — Walter Abish