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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Yo, thats illogical I cant have it!
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
I have just created something totally illogical.
It is illogical to play Wednesday, Saturday, and Tuesday.
Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.
Even when winnin's illogical, losin's still far from optional
Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?
I have an illogical affinity for 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.'
Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical
American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
People have even said my father paid Aditya Chopra to make a film for me. It's illogical. People say what they have to say.
My love of science fiction comes from the idea of being able to explore ideas and concepts to an either logical or illogical extreme.
I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed.
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.
Unfortunately, instead of standing up to Iran, the Obama administration is giving in to the Iranians' bizarre tantrums and illogical arguments.
The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical.
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.
In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.
I think I'm constantly surprised that adults can't deal with illogical things or thing that are weird or psychedelic. I've never really lost that.
Films, more for children, have a greater appeal on the people. It is through this medium that any illogical thought among people can be controlled.
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.
Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
There's nothing illogical, it seems to me, about saying, 'I am going to care deeply about my work and my writing. I'm also going to care deeply about my family and my child.'
Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them.
The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic.
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless.
Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.
I love thinking of music of this way to access some kind of illogical realm filled with all kinds of aberrations and weird stuff. It's not implicit in music to have a story, so it creates this incredible potential for vague stories.
The woman who rules her roost is one of two things: she's illogical, therefore spoiling her children, or she's an iron-fisted disciplinarian, adopting the attitude that rightfully belongs to the man and losing the precious softness that is her birthright.
Democracy in some ways is a very illogical political system. When you win an election, you have to preserve the institutions that would make it possible for your political enemies to win next time. If you think about it, that's almost antithetical to human nature.
I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.
One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' that's been done so far, or make anything that's been done so far become illogical in any way, so you always want to try to connect when you're doing a series of films that has a continuous character.
Throughout my time working in restaurants, I developed an illogical dread of some basic kitchen tasks. None of them - picking and chopping parsley, peeling and mincing garlic, browning pans of ground meat - were particularly difficult. But at the scale required in a professional kitchen, they felt Sisyphean.
Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.
