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Is there some irony here? Probably. But sometimes in order to enact real reform, interesting alliances have to be made.

So much irony in this story. We the leftists converted suddenly and started to pray for Sharon's health.

'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career.

Personally I am haunted by the irony that someone like Sheila, whose message to the world was all about nurturing, could have a child who would shoot her.

People are tough. We're evolved for less food; more exercise; less sleep; less security; more paranoia. The irony is that we're so good at what we do. We strive for more food; less exercise; more sleep; more security; less paranoia - and we've succeeded.

People generally don't associate spring flowers with the unhappy days of their lives. Actually, it's pretty much the opposite. They come in here and see something that's beautiful and peaceful. There's a strange irony about it all if you really think about it.

Advertisers like that because they want you to feel their product isn't normal - this perfume isn't normal, this set of lingerie isn't normal. The irony is that they are appealing to normal people to buy the product because they want them to identify with an exotic life that they don't lead.

Some people do it with irony and humor. Some people do it earnestly. Some people are ashamed of having to ask the question. And every so often there will be a journalist from Swaziland who doesn't know anything about it -- wonderful.

The budget is being eaten up pretty quickly because there are so many teams using the money. The irony is as they get more successful, they need to raise more of their own money.

They should definitely abide by their privacy policies. The irony is rich.

They took the largest, wealthiest black county and reduced it to a stereotype of a poor, dangerous black neighborhood. And the irony is the neighborhood isn't even a poor black neighborhood.

This poll tells us that most small business owners are in the dark when it comes to knowing which agencies can help their business and what they can offer. The irony is that the owners who had received federal assistance were quite pleased with the results.

There's a certain sense of irony that the professionals placed children in a home overseen by someone totally incompetent for the job and the responsibility is left for my client to second-guess their choice.

There's a certain irony in the mayor's position.

There's an irony here, in that Del. Dwyer feels he is a spiritual activist. You know what? So do I and the others like me, who are fighting for thousands of Maryland families.

It's an unfortunate irony that state leaders were unable to reconcile their differences, while voters - who are often deeply split along partisan lines - were very much in agreement. This was an opportunity to give the public something it collectively wanted.

It's quite an irony that we're commemorating martial law and we see that the militarist mind-set is so deep in this administration, ... The standard response to protest actions are massive troop and police deployment. These things are obviously intended to intimidate people, short of what Marcos did in 1972.

The irony was not lost on me, and it better not be lost on LSU.

The irony upon irony of this lawsuit was great. First, Fox having the trademark 'fair and balanced' -- a network which is anything but fair and balanced. Then there's the irony of a news organization trying to suppress free speech.

The irony of the situation is that we have the best racing in the world and jockeys come here from all over the world and try to emulate and mimic the style of American riders,

The irony of the pot calling the kettle black. Where's the pun in that?

The irony of the game is that they controlled the tempo with a slower pace, and that dictated how the game was played. It's unfortunate that we were unprepared to play both mentally and physically.

The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.

The irony of it in our Holland restaurant you can only get liquor, no beer or wine. So there are just some maybe out-dated laws that Wyoming today took a step up and voted right.

The irony of ironies is, in order to make this coin totally legal and totally monetized, the buyer will have to give, in addition to millions of dollars it costs to buy it, $20 -- a $20 bill -- to go back to the Treasury.

The irony of his fame now really is that he was one of the least significant rulers.

The irony of all this summer rally is that the more vigorous it gets the higher the odds are that Mr. Greenspan continues to tighten the screws. And whether that will then lead to a more severe hangover the next morning is what we're all wrestling with.

The irony is while we're driving more productivity and revenue by switching to broadband POS systems, we need to be far more careful about Internet vulnerabilities. It's a whole new ballgame building an IP network for hundreds of stores that needs to function even if a broadband connection is lost, and has to protect private customer and business information, not to mention facilitate the business of managing the entire network.

The irony is we went way out of the world and had to learn worldly skills to survive out there. What people who understand us discover is we have experts is every field of human endeavor.

The irony is, we could have gone ahead with the paella, under the new rules. It was free and open to everybody, and we always fed about 3,000 people.

The Cambodian government doesn't seem to understand the sad irony of threatening critics of the prime minister on International Human Rights Day, but the rest of the world does. Cambodia seems to be traveling down the path to becoming an elected dictatorship. It is time for Cambodia's friends in the international community to reengage politically and make it clear to the government that it has to meet its human rights commitments.

I learnt a lot about Chinese people from this film, ... I don't think we know them very well in this country. Often, they're very closed off in their restaurants: they don't speak to us, and we don't speak to them. With this film, for the first time I had a proper feeling for Chinese people, how nice they are, their wryness, their sense of irony - a lot like us really.

In a weird way, this tragedy will make it a magnet for opportunity seekers. It's the irony of tragedies.

If people say they can't stand Ray and still watch her, then something else is going on. It's a sort of bonding experience. Online forums have made it easier for people to become sisters and brothers in hate. The irony is that, by writing and talking about her, her critics become her advertisers.

If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted or misinterpreted. So it does lead to us being slightly more dour and staid and predictable than would otherwise be the case, which I personally find quite frustrating - because if you don't laugh occasionally in my job, you cry most of the time.

In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature. What they're doing is simply talking back to the language itself --as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony --those aspects of language of which the poet is a clear mirror. Poetry is not an art or a branch of art, it's something more. If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological, indeed genetic, goal. Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a ''read,'' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place, against himself.

If you were a Democrat, you'd probably get hammered for it. There's an irony there. You've got a Republican president overseeing the creation of a large, new department. But I don't think he'll get criticized for it.

The irony of prison is that it takes years and years and years to plan an elaborate escape, but all you have is years and years and years.

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

He's living in a time warp. The great irony is Bush inherited the strongest presidency of anyone since Franklin Roosevelt, and Cheney acts as if he's still under the constraints of 1973 or 1974.

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

The greatest irony in the world is that you are so blessed and don't know it.

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.

The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.

I fear that my jokes will be misinterpreted and the irony lost. I fear that someone will take offense. I fear that a post will sound boastful.

Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?

Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

I like the irony in my work.

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

I wonder if Bettie Page original gay cult had something to do with the ironies inherent in her image, as well as her innate fabulousness as an image.

Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.

The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status.

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.

By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.

Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.

Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

Being lost is worth the being found.

When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

...because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.

Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.

The irony is that while most of us are optimistic about our futures, the reality is clear that accident and disability are more likely to impact us than we care to acknowledge. Clearly workers with employment disability benefits have an edge, and those that plan for their own individual needs are also ahead of the game.

The irony is that we're really good at comedy in Britain, but for some reason, we make very few comedy films. And when we do, they're either quite American in style, or very Richard Curtis. And I like Richard Curtis, but I think only Richard Curtis should write Richard Curtis films, and other people should try and find their own style.

The irony is that these (executives) want to be a lot more successful with their approach to a horse than they want to be with their approach to a human being.

The irony is that the program actually creates unfair competition,

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

The irony is that the (Department of Defense) can find documents that prove their case ... but can't find documents that would prove the arguments of the veterans,

The irony is that I was a single mother, and I raised five kids by myself and put myself through school. I bought my first house in 1999 -- that was a very big deal for me -- and now I have to sell it, only because they won't hire Americans. It's devastating.

The irony is that it wasn't so long ago that South Africans were saying that the economy needs to grow at 3%. Now we're looking at 3,3% and saying it's dismal. It shows how the expectations have shifted.

The irony is that in the 1970s and 1980s, we were trying to get to that world again. We're darn close to price stability now.

The irony is that, for bail purposes, my client is indigent.

The irony is Santana used outside vocalists before, but now older artists need certain celebrities to increase their chances to get on radio. Stunt casting is the only way you'd expect Herbie Hancock to get on rock radio now.

The irony is, J&J could have had this company for $76 a share.

The irony is in many places the railroads are laying track where they removed it over the past two decades.