Quotes About Paradox

Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Western people ask me whether it is a paradox that I am King but support democracy. I have to tell them that in Thailand, the King is the guarantor of democracy.

Pragmatism and romance are sort of opposites.

I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

The grim irony of investing is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for.

I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking it. And you have a responsibility.

There is nothing more dangerous than security.

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

Calling yourself God is blasphemous, but calling yourself demon isn't.

Describing yourself as edgy is one of the least edgy things a person can do.

Funny and sad are two sides of the same coin. I think that most comedians are able to tap into deep subject matter.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.

I'm never gonna get it, but I always wanted a tattoo that says: 'This is my tattoo.'

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

Love doesn't make angels fall. If anything, love can have quite the opposite effect.

fifty-six, his hour had come round. He was a paradox and would always remain one, a great tangle of calculated mannerisms and raw, uncalculated emotion. Well-read, fluent in French, and the wealthy child of privilege, he could be crude, rude, and plain foolish. He had reduced his extensive study of history and military art to a five-word manifesto of war: "violent attacks everywhere with everything.

In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.