Quotes About Paradox

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

You are a sceptic. Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith. What are you? To define is to limit.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow...

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!

It was physically impossible for the verger to be suffering from time-lag, unless it was somehow contagious.

This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. All in our custody seethes with an inner restlessness. But in dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.

The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less. The

Death is not a lover. Oh yes he is.

sometimes I think I would have found my life pretty funny if I hadnt had to live it.

What is the significance of the book's title? 2. Discuss the meaning of the observation: "The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before" [p. 278]. How are these words applicable to the novel's action?

I was a born classicist and my heroes were never saints but killers.

If fate is the law then is fate also subject to that law?

Odd the way the world is. How you can have just about anything except what you want.

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

Beauty and fear make uneasy companions

But beautiful was not the opposite of terrible. The two could easily coexist.

The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies. Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.

I freely admit I'm confused. I'm a confused and troubled individual but at the same time...Its Free!