Quotes About Paradox

En realidad, Dios era la encarnación de las fuerzas. También la más paradójica de las fuerzas: ¿existe acaso algo más extraño que ese implacable poder que emana de lo que no se mueve?

Guilt is born in the same hour with pleasure, like anything in this universe and its enemy.

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

I believe every major strength we have can be used against us as a weakness. At the same time, things that people see as weakness can be part of our strength.

Your greatest strength can be your greatest weakness.

Sometimes our greatest strengths are also our greatest weaknesses.

In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks.

Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L.A. But half of it is severe slummy, something like Rio De Janiero or something. So it's kind of weird, because it's both happening at the same time.

Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never have to use them.

Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

I find old women at weddings and funerals attractive; I have this weird mortality thing.

I am such that person that, when I'm working, I'm like, 'Oh, what I wouldn't give for a weekend off!' And then, as soon as I have more that 18 hours without anything to do, I start shaking. It's really funny.

In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man's meat is another man's poison.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

'America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.' It's one of those jokes that doesn't hit people right away, because it's so prevalent that we don't get it.

I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory.

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

How is an error possible in mathematics?

When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'

I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine.

There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

Money can't buy poverty.