Quotes About Paradox

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.

I sat there with everything - and I had nothing.

I'm totally secular, but I'm scared like hell of God.

I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.

I am an oxymoron, shy and confident at the same time.

The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together.

If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.

This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.

I love paradox. I like to go where people don't expect me to go.

'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.

There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me.

The whole notion of an alternative truth is a paradox. How can you have an alternative to truth?