Quotes About Paradox

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

I think whenever I've thought something might go well, it hasn't, and when I've thought, 'Oh yeah, just chuck it out there,' that's when it kicks off, so now, I don't claim to understand anything.

Even arch-isolationists, such as former President Herbert Hoover and Senator Robert Taft of Ohio - two of the most right-wing figures in the Republican Party - insisted on being called liberal.

Your characters can do the worst things on Earth - cut to a happy baby, it ends up being OK.

Every harlot was a virgin once.

I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.  Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.

Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die. He

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

The well bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves.

What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. Desire, at the end, was a malady, or a madness, or both.

Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays. It is a great bore. It makes society so obvious.

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

People die of common sense

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

Dorian is far too wise not to do foolish things now and then

iridescent with fancy and winged it with paradox.