Quotes About Paradox

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.

Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.

The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.

It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.

That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.

Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.

This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.

I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

War creates peace like hate creates love.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

In the Wu Tzu it says: 'He who would save his life shall lose it, and he who would give up his life shall save it.'

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long.

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.