Quotes About Paradox

I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.

Holiday eating is a study in paradox. You're surrounded by food, but you're so busy shopping and cooking that you don't have time to eat. Then, when your blood sugar dips to the point of derangement, you make a desperate lunge for the closest foodstuff - and the next thing you know, you've eaten an entire box of regifted peppermint bark.

Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect.

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

There's something about America's sweetheart and America's bad boy. That juxtaposition is what everyone desires.

The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

Everything in life is a double-edged sword.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I'm always interested in contradictions.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Community in the American university is paradoxically a private and individual decision.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

One of the most puzzling aspects of love is its lack of justice. It's unfair. Love can elude people who seem to deserve it while it's heaped on those who appear to ignore it, run from it, or slough it off as too restrictive.

Winter and Summer While it's summer people say Winter is the better season. Such is human reason. Kamijima Onitsura

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

There are no simple congruities in life or history. The cult of happiness erroneously assumes them.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

La Grandeza existe; como mucho, coexiste. Su subtexto es que se joda el contexto.

Of all sexual aberrations perhaps the most curious is chastity.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Intelligence is perhaps but a malady,-a beautiful malady; the oyster's pearl.