Quotes About Paradox

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

How beautiful and horrible life is, Hema thought; too horrible to simply call tragic. Life is worse than tragic." p 108

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact.

The land of milk and honey, Ghosh thought. Milk and honey, and love for money. Now

When you win, you often lose, that's just the fact.

When you win, you often lose

In this upside down world, snarls are smiles, ugly is beautiful, and the crippled outwork the able bodied, but tears are the same.

For every great idea, the opposite idea is also true.

Reality, in truth is … what is the word? Reality is ironic .

That forced labor gradually became discredited at the same time as it expanded is surely one of the great paradoxes of world history in the nineteenth century.

Biologists sometimes get physics envy, because every time we find out one of our big rules – universal genetics, evolution by natural selection – things look more complex within them as soon as we begin to look.

That was cool and that sucked all at the same time.

If I'm in love with him, how come I can so perfectly inhabit the mindset of thinking he's a git and the bane of my life?

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

It is one of the many paradoxes of life he has come to accept, that learning the truth often requires acts of deception.

blessing and cursing are born as twins and separated at birth to meet again in mourning

I have so many moments. I am extremely passionate about life and at the same time, I'm always depressed, so everything's always happening at the same time for me. It's the best day and the worst day too.

You can't really be passionately moderate. It's like wearing an 'Extra Medium' - it doesn't exist.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Perfection itself is imperfection.

I'm ultimately a perfectionist who doesn't believe in perfection.

I can give you a definite perhaps.

I think that 'celebrity' and 'chef' should be a permanent oxymoron.

The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.