{"quotes":[{"text":"While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["be-kind","building-people-up","commandments","communicate","conflict","dogma","end-it-with-talking","facebook","forgive","god","gospel","hidden-agendas","insecure","jilted","love-everyone","low-self-esteem","making-a-point","mental-illness","move-on","neighbors","novels","obviousness","out-there","over-the-top","piety","pious","practice-what-you-preach","preaching","privacy","problems","reach-out","relationships","relentless","religion","religions","ridiculous","rules","self-righteousness","silly","slighted","talk","tearing-people-down","upfront","worthless"],"id":7615,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous.","author":"Fernando Pessoa","tags":["fernando","letters","love","pessoa","poem","ridiculous"],"id":9750,"author_id":"Fernando+Pessoa"},{"text":"There is no real bravery in getting paid to save someone's life. However, there is a large amount of bravery in a nurse break dancing at the hospital's Christmas party.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bravery","break-dancing","christmas-party","courage","dancing","embarrasement","funny","hospital","humor","no-fear","nurse","ridiculous","social-situations","stupid"],"id":17676,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.","author":"Osamu Dazai","tags":["honor","ridicule","ridiculous","shame"],"id":26900,"author_id":"Osamu+Dazai"},{"text":"...And of course they'll get their milk from us, because Gooch's milk in the village really can't be trusted. I do hope, Henry, the vicarage drains are all right if Martin is to go there, because the French are rather vague about drains.''Yes, but darling, they aren't bringing their drains with them'...","author":"Angela Thirkell","tags":["drains","humour","prejudice","ridiculous","satire"],"id":44140,"author_id":"Angela+Thirkell"},{"text":"Now you're being ridiculous. If your mom changed into a carrot, I'd think she'd change back before someone ate her, werewolf or not.","author":"Jazz Feylynn","tags":["before-someone-ate-her","change-back","green-lady","green-man","jazz-feylynn","paranormal","ridiculous","werewolf"],"id":45982,"author_id":"Jazz+Feylynn"},{"text":"To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.","author":"Rowan Atkinson","tags":["freedom","person","ridiculous "],"id":49861,"author_id":"Rowan+Atkinson"},{"text":"Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer?","author":"Henri Poincaré","tags":["chance","eclipse","natural","naturalism","rain","ridiculous","superstition","weather"],"id":84956,"author_id":"Henri+Poincar%C3%A9"},{"text":"When you realise you are just as ridiculous \u0026 just as #special as everyone else, you love them all.","author":"Jay Woodman","tags":["love","ridiculous","self","special"],"id":94288,"author_id":"Jay+Woodman"},{"text":"Often, moreover, it is...That aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.","author":"Tom Robbins","tags":["disagreeable","eccentric","happiness","hard-times","inspirational","ridiculous"],"id":98826,"author_id":"Tom+Robbins"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}