Quotes About Paradox

Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There is no such thing.

The unique idea of [The Darkest Time] movie is because in usual if you are in darkness, you are scared. But this movie is the opposite. In darkness, you are okay.

'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.

If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.

Its very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesnt make sense!

I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every time it happens I feel crude.

Some people have a perverse talent; they're capable of shooting themselves in the foot and stabbing themselves in the back at the exact same time.

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.

Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

Having faith is believing in something you just know ain't true.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

All say, 'how hard it is that we have to die' -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

For he did not seem to know any way to do a person a kindness but by killing him.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

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This is why classical thought concerning structure could say that the center is, paradoxically, within the structure and outside it. The center is at the center of the totality, and yet, since the center does not belong to the totality (is not part of the totality), the totality has its center elsewhere. The center is not the center.

Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.

On one hand transcendent and lasting and on the other violent and extremely flammable.