Quotes About Paradox

The speed of time is one second per second.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.

Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.

I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all).

The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.

Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?