Quotes About Paradox

I eat too much. I drink to much. A greedy selfish such-n-such. But when I wrap my turban on my mind is clear, I'm 'Baba Lon'.

Creer que el cielo en un infierno cabe

What matters most has an ultimate metallic quality of death. The chasuble and the wagon wheel, the razor and the prickly beards of shepherds, the bare moon, a fly, humid cupboards, rubble piles, the images of saints covered in lace, quicklime, and the wounding edges of the rooflines and watchtowers.

I talk nonsense at times, because sense is monotonous.

In a doctrine so simple, consistency is no merit.

His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

What's good for reform is bad for the reformers

hacía tiempo que había comprendido que el amor era traicionero. Podía transformar el mundo de cielo en infierno en un instante, y al instante seguiente volver a tranformarlo en sentido contrário, y asi ad infinitum.

It's ironic that when I was alive, all I thought about was death.

We can't have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.

If the queen had balls, she'd be the king.

I try to wrap my mind around this paradox: self-sabotage as a form of control. If I screw up my life, I can engineer my own death rather than have it happen to me. If I stay in a doomed relationship, if I mess up my career, if I hide in fear instead of facing what's wrong with my body, I can create a living death — but one where I call the shots.

The older he got, the less he believed and then the less he believed the more capable he was of believing. Such a cool paradox. He said.

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary

It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others.

Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for that event to occur. The larger, more significant, or more energetic the event, the more it tends to remain as it originally happened, despite any interference. I frowned. There's...a law of conservation of history?

I've heard that nature abhors a vacuum—though if that's true, then I can't figure why about ninety-nine zillion percent of creation is vacuum.

Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I said. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett.

He's a lawyer, he's a priest. This does not compute. - Harry Dresden

I had seen the Titan's weakness: She had the vices of her virtues.

She has the devil in her eye And holds an angel in her heart. She'll get you wrapped around her little finger And tear your mind a million miles apart. Her kiss is a cup of sunshine.

Now if 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind.