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Quotes About Conflicting

She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Of course I contradict myself. Why else would hold things in and put the fire out?
~ Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso
He found Washington at once august and disgusting.
~ John Taliaferro
Imi plac temperamentele agresive si contradictorii,violente si sfasiate,si care prin excesele lor te stimuleaza,te descumpanesc.Abulia mea are nevoie de bici. O,dac-as avea un minimum de convingeri ca sa pot lupta pentru sau contra unui lucru!Eu insa mi-am vlaguit,mi-am una secatuit,mi-am golit convingerile,una cate una si toate deodata.
~ Emil Cioran
I'm very... controversial for some reason.
~ Lil Peep
Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.
~ benford gregory iii
I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.
~ Nicolas Cage
As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.
~ Noam Chomsky
At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message.
~ Eric Holder
I am a mass of contradictions.
~ Maureen Johnson
But of all the deadly theories by means of which you are now being destroyed, I would like to warn you about one of the deadliest and most crucial: the alleged dichotomy of science and ethics. It is the doctrine that man's science and ethics - or his knowledge and values, or his body and soul - are two separate, antagonistic aspects of his existence, and that man is caught between them, as a precarious, permanent traitor to their conflicting demands.
~ Ayn Rand
Sometimes she felt like she had two personalities. One was shy and wanted to keep things private, and the other was talky and wanted to blabber. (pg. 127)
~ Barbara Garland Polikoff
Most people respond automatically to their given circle of representation, and strengthen it by their unconscious allegiance. Since their cultural circle is made of many conflicting drives for their allegiance, their lives are fragmented and ambiguous.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
~ Harold MacMillan
Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was struck by what I had forgotten of the book: in a manner of pages, we encounter shame, history, ruin, conflicting stories, and wounds badly healed; in short, the South.
~ Kevin Young
Her eyes widened and a strangled sound escaped her throat as she sought to process the sudden wash of conflicting sensations that bombarded her from every angle. He was deep. Impossibly deep. She surrounded him. He surrounded her. Their hips were flush against each other. His body covered hers possessively. There was a burning ache deep inside her, and she couldn't discern whether it was pleasure or pain.
~ Maya Banks
In international affairs the same formula of federalism will apply: self-determination for every group in regard to matters which concern it much more vitally than they concern others, and government by a neutral authority embracing rival groups in all matters in which conflicting interests of groups come into play.
~ Bertrand Russell
I think my mother was baffled by me. We were polar opposites. She was shy and retiring. I was over-fond of the limelight. Many times in my life, I was conscious of embarrassing her with my carrying on.
~ Laurie Graham
A woman of contradictions . Forthright and secretive in the same breath.
~ Sue Grafton
He had practically made a career out of reading parenting books, even though they all seemed to give conflicting advice. One thing they agreed on was that rebellion stemmed from a need to escape parental control, running up against a need for boundaries and limits. Not that it made dealing with a thirteen-year-old any easier.
~ Susan Wiggs
Women are much more interesting when they're not nice." Again she sucked in oxygen. "Don't you forget it.
~ Bobby Hutchinson
I know I rubbed people the wrong way.
~ Lane Kiffin
A patchwork of expedients, conflicting principles, innovations nobody understood, holdovers that ought to have been taken off the books years ago. Yet in the midst of modern confusion, fundamental
~ Michael Chabon
when presented with duplicates of the same ulcer, every doctor had contradicted himself
~ Michael Lewis