Quotes About Paradox

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.

You're the most unknown famous man I ever met

A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.

Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance.

Goddammit! How does the world keep spinning with women on the planet?"Ian St. John in THE POMPEII SCROLL

I am a puzzle and a conundrum and a thunderstorm.

One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.

The more she turned right the more I turned wrong.

Mastering the paradox of star brands is very difficult and rare - fortunately.

Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.

People who want to see things in stark dualities are not going to get much out of my music.

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.