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Quotes About Paradox

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
~ Leo Buscaglia
It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.
~ William Carlos Williams
It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
~ J. K. Rowling
Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
~ Artie Lange
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
~ Samuel Beckett
That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.
~ Samuel Beckett
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
~ Ralph Fiennes
Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
~ Roland Barthes
One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.
~ Annie Lennox
It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
~ Tom Stoppard
And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.
~ Neal Stephenson
I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.
~ Anthony Hopkins
Simply put: time is fluid. The faster your world spins out of control, the slower timer crawls. The more time you need, the less you're sure to get. It's all relative
~ Shannon Lee
It is interesting to note how often a technological development—such as Gutenberg's—promotes rather than eliminates that which it is supposed to supersede.
~ Anna Quindlen
there is always a but in this imperfect world!
~ Anne Bronte
Because a mother's love is God's greatest joke.
~ Anne Enright
Little bundle of contradictions
~ Anne Frank
Nu degeaba se spune despre mine c? sunt un m?nunchi de contradic?ii!
~ Anne Frank
A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of the truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly.
~ Anne Lamott
A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.
~ Anne Lamott