“ Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more tim… Christopher Hitchens
“ Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering… Christopher Hitchens
“ Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society. Criss Jami
“ The dimple in his left cheek was ironic-it gave the impression that he was sweet as a cupcake. (Dark City Lights) Elaine Kagan
“ I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper. Amit Kalantri
“ It's that feeling you get somehow knowing that something great is about to happen... about to happen. While every passing day nothing great really does happen. You wake up, go to classes, study, sleep… Sanhita Baruah
“ The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one. Ryan Lilly
“ Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away th… Christopher Hitchens
“ We named the bar The Bar. People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt, my sister reasoned.Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else woul… Gillian Flynn
“ Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and do they truly revere Fat Man and Little Boy? I have been… Christopher Hitchens
“ Scary discovery of the day: Most people who RT @yokoono's tweets do so without irony. James Taranto
“ Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty and indecision from which there is no escape. I… Janet Beizer
“ It would be dreadfullyironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my memories of her. That sort of ending seemedappropriately tragic; the smitten fey c… Julie Kagawa
“ Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases? T.K. Naliaka
“ Blasphemy has always seemedto require taking things very seriously. I know no better stance to adopt from within the secular-religious, evangelical traditions of United States politics, including the… Donna Haraway
“ Captain Smek himself appeared on television for an official speech to humankind. [...] 'Noble Savages of Earth,' he said. 'Long time we have tried to live together in peace.' (It had been five months.… Adam Rex
