Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.
Haven't you picked up on the irony of life by now? Things only just happen when you're not ready. When you're ready, you start trying, and gadamn I feel like trying right now.
One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.
Irony is the glory of slaves.
In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.
Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.
Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.
I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.
It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.
Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.
Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.
Sometimes you have to say no to things that people don't want you to say no to in the interest of self-preservation. I definitely went through some times that I did more than I could handle, and I was trying to make decisions for the best of my career; the irony was that those decisions were a direct cause of my inability to produce, perform, create anything. If you are not emotionally and personally stable and intact and healthy, then the entire foundation of what you do this for - the things that you make - is gone.
You can say that a small attack is one in which relatively few people die, but the minute you say that, you can sense the ironies in that statement. A blast in which five people are killed is a meaningful blast.
Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.
Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.
Irony. . . may be defined as what people miss.
The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.