Quotes About Paradox

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.

I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.

As powerful as anyone may claim God to be, somehow he always needs money.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.

Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

Adolf Hitler is simply the dark-side of Mother Teresa.

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

Life is never free of contradictions

Nothing fails like success.

Tragedy is actually untimely comedy

I wanted to be that, The one which was vast, The one which laughed, The one which surpassed, Yes, which also collapsed.True, it was abstract.I wanted to be that.I still, want to be that!

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.