If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell it to them. If they want someone to believe a ridiculous lie, all they have to do is tell it to them enough.
Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.
New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem. . . ridiculous.
I've always been against recreating or re-recording samples, but I managed to re-record one or two that were just too expensive and it was just ridiculous.
Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.
I'm, like, a compulsive eater. I'm going to be so fat when I'm older, it's ridiculous.
I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent. ' 'My accent?' 'It is quite silly. ' 'So you can't understand me?' 'Not a word. ' 'Then how did you understand that?' 'I didn't. ' ''You didn't understand what I just said?' 'That's right. ' 'You understood that, though. ' 'Not at all. ' The American glowered.
What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.
Basically, you can't make a pop culture reference now without someone saying it's Tarantino-esque or post-Tarantino and I'm like where's that all come from? It's ridiculous. But it's not his fault.
Petitions are ridiculous.
I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on 'Britain's Got Talent'.
The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.
But once you get down to reality, there's no one to play her and there's no movie. It would be ridiculous.
The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.
I made $3,000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash. That was a bad situation, because I bought ridiculous stuff. I bought a snake bite emergency kit. Then I said to my friends, "Don't even worry about snakes anymore". My friend stepped on a worm, and I said, "Lay down!"
I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!
Please, I need you to save my ass.
Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.
I hate to say "found himself" - it sounds so ridiculous.