Quotes About Paradox

Did she believe in God? Yes and no. God is the cunning of all these boxes fitting inside each other, perhaps? More likely, God is just another box. Neither the tiniest one nor the biggest imaginable. There are boxes even God knows nothing of.

The old woman dressing a small child for slaughter In a convent's school uniform. The ceiling pale as the flowers. The red parrot screaming in the parrot house.

It's not the bad ideas that do you in, it's the good ideas. And you may say, 'That can't be so. That's paradoxical. What he [Graham] meant was that if a thing is a bad idea, it's hard to overdo. But where there is a good idea with a core of essential and important truth, you can't ignore it. And then it's so easy to overdo it. So the good ideas are a wonderful way to suffer terribly if you overdo them

Would you rather be more abominable than you sound or sound more abominable than you are? The answer is I would rather be neither but I am both.

They're beautiful hands," he said; "though they've ruined the world, they're beautiful hands.

I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.

On the worst days, I feel fine. On the best days, I know I am not.

When it happens, this is what happens: I shoot myself. Not, you know, my self self. I shoot my future self. He steps out of a time machine, introduces himself as Charles Yu. What else am I supposed to do? I kill him. I kill my own future.

The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind.

It's a staircase in a house built by the construction firm of Escher and Sons.

It was almost reckless how vulnerable she allowed herself to be; you couldn't help but hate her for doing that to herself, and at the same time hate yourself for giving in to it, and underneath all of that, despite your hate for her, couldn't help but love her.

I'm on trial for my own disappearance?

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

The distance between an honest Christian mystic and a fortune-teller is sometimes less than half a whisper. Less than a pot of tea or the space between two book covers.

Love would be two animals: a hummingbird and a snake. Both are perfectly untrainable.

Jak ?íkám, romantická láska existovala i d?ív než v 12. století, ale neidealizovala se a p?íb?h Parida a Heleny je skv?lý p?íklad. Láska jim p?inesla jen prchavé št?stí, ale celkov? to byla katastrofa.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

Yes, honesty pays but only if all of society is honest. If only you are honest, but everyone else is not, you will suffer. This is the bottleneck obstructing change in India today. We all want to be honest, but we don't want to be the only one honest, for then we will suffer. This paradox prevents change.

Era um rio podre, contudo eu ainda via alguma graça ali onde ele fazia a curva, no modo peculiar daquela curva, penso que a curva é o gesto de um rio. E assim o reconheci, como às vezes se reconhece num homem velho o trejeito infantil, mais lento apenas.

Ahhhh, welcome to the paradox of the home office. The more flexible the arrangement, especially around kids, school and sports activities… the more likely one ends up twisted like a pretzel.

...truth cannot overcome its old habit of being stranger than fiction.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

You know, America celebrating for Washington — a man who was so truthful — seems kinder sacrilegious. A lot of lying Americans get together and celebrate. Americans celebrating a truthful man's birthday always reminds me of a snake charmer celebrating St. Patrick's Day.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.