Quotes About Paradox

It's just Jessica and Marcus, oxymoronically alone together.

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

The ugliness of the beauty is much horrible than the ugliness of the ugliness.

This world has a secret rule: Those who have to die live, and those who have to live die!

You can see love in war and you can also see war in love!

We laughed hard at real stories of tragedy. It had to be real and it had to be funny. Somebody getting hurt was wonderful. Later, as the 2000 Year Old Man with Carl Reiner I explained the difference between comedy and tragedy: If I cut my finger, that's tragedy. Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die.

My very precious and relentlessly literal child, it's religion. It doesn't have to make sense.

For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.

O sabor do beijo resvala entre o lábio e dente, entre vida e morte. Lâmina e veludo, qual dos dois no beijo a gente toca? Asfixiação boca-a-boca: isso é o beijo.

Fique a saber, padre, que os opostos são os mais iguais. Não acredita, veja: o fogo não é quem se parece mais ao gelo? Ambos queimam e, nos dois, só através da morte o homem pode entrar.

You can be a homicidal madman and hilarious at the same time, you know

It took more paper than ever to support the paperless society.

Irony, like sin, never rests.

It was like he was being pulled in a single direction, but by two diametrically opposed forces—if such a thing could be possible.

The aim of theory is not to be boringly right but brilliantly wrong.

It was a riddle to see a person could get what they wanted and regret it, could even regret wanting it in the first place.

That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire".

The result is the Strategy Paradox: strategies with the greatest possibility of success also have the greatest possibility of failure. Resolving this paradox requires a new way of thinking about strategy and uncertainty.

Faithful Christian living involves a paradox: our faith is both world-affirming and world-denying. World-affirming

You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.

And there is a paradox that many of you refuse to see: to get to a point where race won't make a difference, we have to wrestle, first, with the difference that race makes.

The world is a confusing place, meaningful and meaningless at once.