Quotes About Paradox

No sense makes sense.

It's a weird little anomaly about horror films in that the more money and noise you have, the less scary it gets.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

I feel like part of your job as an actor is you're going to get noticed, and the more successful you get, the more noticed you are. It's kind of like a Catch-22.

I can headline a festival and then literally, 10 minutes later, be walking around, and nobody notices.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

Catch-22' is the big daddy of funny war novels. It's capacious and occasionally rambling. It's a bible of literate comedy: you can find anything you want inside - it's all in there.

The terrible, exasperating thing about humans is how goodness and gentleness, and utter depravity and disregard for human life, can be contained within the same person, and in terrifyingly close proximity.

Once in a while, like a mist passing across the sky, she would feel a strange communion with him, as if a thought had passed back and forth, and she felt happy that the strain was removed from his life and he had been set free. It was paradoxical, but she felt good about that.

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren't you really in agreement?

Why is it,' he said quietly, 'that quite often even the things which are correct just don't seem to be right?

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.

But that's just as bad," protested Milo. "You mean just as good," corrected the Humbug. "Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things." "I don't know which side of anything to look at," protested Milo. "Everything is so confusing and all your words only make things worse.

For instance, have you ever heard a square-wheeled steam roller ride over a street full of hard-boiled eggs he asked, and as he did, all that could be heard were loud crunching sounds.

In front the sea was spread, a smiling jailer, but even more incorruptible than the frowning mountains.

The consul was interested in his report. He was only twenty-four; and he had not been in Coralio long enough for his enthusiasm to cool in the heat of the tropics — a paradox that may be allowed between Cancer and Capricorn.

he had not been in Coralio long enough for his enthusiasm to cool in the heat of the tropics—a paradox that may be allowed between Cancer and Capricorn.

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet could have guessed that this bland orb teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.

And isn't that the sum of all love? The whole story of love? Something that takes you by surprise, something that is seen from a distance, and yet recognized instantly and clearly? Something you are scared of your whole life long, and yet, when faced by it, reach for with open arms? And isn't that the story of folly, the sum of it?

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