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Quotes About Paradox

The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.
~ G. K. Chesterton
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
~ G. K. Chesterton
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Faptul c? sunt dus în pr?pastie cu gânduri bune nu schimb? câtu?i de pu?in realitatea c?derii mele în gol.
~ Gabriel Liiceanu
La paix a été aussi mauvaise que la guerre. La paix a tué autant d'hommes que la guerre. La paix es aussi mauvaise… aussi mauvaise…
~ Gabrielle Roy
The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a.m. She weighs six pounds, ten ounces. The mother takes the baby in her arms and asks her, "Who are you, my little one?" And in response, this baby, who is Liz and not Liz at the same time, laughs.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The heart is so peculiar. How light and how heavy it can feel at the same time. How light.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
LOCAL GIRL BACK FROM DEAD; CLAIMS DEATH IS CRUISE, NOT WHITE LIGHT, TUNNEL
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
~ Gaius Petronius
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
~ Galileo Galilei
I say it's impossible to understand the world. He says he's talking about this half-bird half-fish creature, not about the world. I say there's no difference between this half-bird half-fish creature and the world.
~ Gao Xingjian
Obviously it was meant to tell us nothing, which is exactly the opposite function of a book.
~ Gareth Roberts
Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.
~ Garrison Keillor
I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.
~ Garrison Keillor
Düzler ters. Siyahlar beyaz. Bir gün uyan?rs?n ve dünyay? böyle görmeye baÅŸlars?n.
~ Garth Ennis
Yet "change management," like "Scottish cuisine" and "man bun," is an oxymoron.
~ Gary Hamel
That's the paradox of change in a bureaucracy: what seems doable isn't transformational and what's transformational doesn't seem doable. The result: an endless succession of tweaks that never succeed in making the organization fundamentally more capable.
~ Gary Hamel
remember that if God is perfect Love, then He is not
~ Gary R. Renard
The person who first said that the more things change the more they stay the same hit the universal nail right on the holographic head.
~ Gary R. Renard
And I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second-----sometimes there is perfect understanding between two people who can't stand one another.
~ Gary Schmidt
Monsieur l'Interrogateur, si vous êtes vraiment ce que je pense, comme vous auriez aimé rencontrer Nails Van Byleveld. Quels romans cet homme doit avoir dans le cercueil de sa mémoire ! Quel paradoxe, quelle joie, on doit éprouver à effilocher l'écheveau de vêtements dont il est habillé ! On en reparlera plus tard.
~ Breyten Breytenbach
The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even though we're all going to die, we've all got to live in the meantime…
~ Brian Cox