Quotes About Paradox

And yet wrong steps have to be taken sometimes lest some worse peril befall us; that is the great paradox of politics, and no man can say with surety whether present wrong-doing is better and safer in the end than the possibility of that imagined peril.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

The matters I relateAre true lies.

I am a lie that always speaks the truth.

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

Fiindc? era mereu în întârziere, sfâr?ea câteodat? prin a fi în avans.

En prison on ferme plus de portes qu'on n'en ouvre.

Temos de rir. Senão a tragédia vai nos fazer voar pela janela.

Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more. You are a fascinating enigma, a paradox. You are totally honest, open; you hide nothing: yet you are the most mysterious woman I've ever met.

I loved him too much not to hate him at all!

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Pretty as a painting, but thorny as a rose.

Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...

Mysterious paradox: time, motionless here, gallops out there. In my contracted world, the hours drag on but the months flash by.

If the pain and destruction wasn't a kind of creation, too: the violence of birth, that kind of idea.

Surrealism, although the courses of literature paradoxically make room for it today, is not a discipline that can be taught.

Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

A pity, ' he said, without a trace of mockery. 'It seems that those who possess the greatest beauty appreciate it the least.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.