In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.
Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.