Quotes About Paradox

His mouth formed an O with lips torn angry in laying duck's eggs from a chicken's rectum.

What is required for many of us, paradoxical though it may sound, is the courage to tolerate happiness without self-sabotage.

Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don't understand you at all.

Death must exist for life to have meaning.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

WAITRESS 1 Actually, the last thing I want is to be alone, but . . . the other last thing is to be with someone.

setting off," when the world both contracts and expands at the same time.

The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr)." By this, he means that we require a larger reading of the human past, of our relations with each other, the universe and God, a retelling of our older tales to encompass many truths and to let us grow with change.

is an irony that I have confronted many times in being told that I must appear on television to promote a book that warns people against television.

In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.

There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.

Uma família que não tem um ladrão. Vê se pode!

The more attractive and athletic the character depicted on the T-shirt, the less attractive and athletic the fan wearing it

I can't interfere with my own past! Because that would mean I'd be interfering with my own past- to stop myself from interfering with my own past! THEN where would we be?!" - 6th Doctor

The result is one of the greatest paradoxes of modern history: that an economic system designed to offer infinite choice to the individual has ended up homogenizing humanity.

Umoristica (medica): "Gli specialisti sono mistici e sapienti come i Magi, ma funzionano al contrario: sei tu che devi andare da loro

Llore si le parece. Yo por mi parte me muero de risa.

llore si le parece yo x mi parte me muero de risa

Something Like That PARRA LAUGHS like he's condemned to hell but when haven't poets laughed? at least he declares that he's laughing

Military Intelligence' is an oxymoron, just like 'Government Organisation' is. A bloody game with no rules.

You have noticed that truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping.

To lose is to win, and he who wins shall lose.

The paradox of honor killings is that societies with the most rigid moral codes end up sanctioning behavior that is supremely immoral: murder.

Why is it that looking down seems so much higher than looking up?