Quotes About Paradox

Russiaphobia; what is that?" "Wearing one's rubies and emeralds at the same time," Mrs. Shamefoot said in a hushed voice.

If you drop a Bible from a height you can kill a field mouse; so maybe the Bible isn't all good.

That he loved her was his life's greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.

Je vis, je meurs ; je me brûle et me noie ; J'ai chaud extrême en endurant froidure

You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex.

Ah ! Dostum ! Ä°nan?n bana, bu dünya asl?nda tamamen insanlarla taÅŸak geçmek için yarat?lm?? koskocaman bir kand?rmacad?r.

That's what life is, a bit of light that ends in darkness. But

I knew a real archangel on the downgrade, though still rather frisky, even resplendent in a way.

Entre el penis i les matemàtiques, senyor Baryton, no hi ha res! Res! Hi ha el buit!

She was a true paradox—so solitary, but with intense need for connection with the people she loved most.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional space.

The man who said that one cannot step into the same river twice said something wrong; one can step into the same river twice.

It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is that we could not say what an illogical world would look like.

He's [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then turns around and runs backwards. You'll see; he'll do something wrong in the end. He always does.

I've found in life that the nicest people somehow seem to end up with the most unkind partners. I've never understood that myself.

The best and worst of life all rolled into one incident," Mildrede said sadly. "Life never seems to be able to give you one without the other.

He was a committed ladies' man and obtained a great deal of sustenance from the seemingly inexhaustible supply of women, but he guarded himself vigilantly against addiction, fearful of becoming fodder for that feminine allure which is so paradoxically generous to those who take from it and so destructively cruel to those who give.

Mystics have spoken to us through the ages in terms of paradox. Is it possible that we are beginning to see a meeting ground between science and religion? When we are able to say that "a human is both mortal and eternal at the same time" and "light is both a wave and a particle at the same time," we have begun to speak the same language. Is it possible that the path of spiritual growth that

The mind, which sometimes presumes to believe that there is no such thing as a miracle, is itself a miracle.

Vindecarea constituie rezultatul iubirii. Este o functie a iubirii. Oriunde exista iubire exista vindecare. Si oriunde nu exista iubire exista totusi putina - dar pretionasa - vindecare. In mod paradoxal, o psihologie a raului trebuie sa fie o psihologie prin care se manifesta iubirea. Trebuie sa fie plina de iubire de viata.

Assim vai a vida humana: um nada basta para complicar tudo.

one could deduce that vice is often the manure of virtue