Quotes About Contradiction

Every woman adores a Fascist.

I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

I don't know if English is the only language where some expressions only and solely mean the opposite of what they say but we do have an awful lot of them.

There's a thin line between mockery and endorsement.

It is difficult to portray grey characters because there is a very thin line between being nasty and slightly negative.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

Everybody thinks I am a narcissist. I am actually the opposite of that.

I love seeing Mark Steel or Mark Thomas, but I'm not that sort of person.

Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it.

It is said that a person who makes other people laugh has a lot of pain in his heart. On the contrary, I have thoroughly enjoyed being a comedian and don't nurse such thoughts.

I'm progressive in some ways, old-fashioned in others. I like it when guys hold the door open and are sweet and thoughtful.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.

She unequivocally rejected his crimes, yet he was the father who, in her childhood memory, was loving—until he wasn't.

Svetlana's responses to her mother would always swing, unresolved, between sentimental idealizations and bitter anger.

I am difficult to love, and I know it. I never learned the unconditional part, so trust evades me. Add sex and I fall apart, eventually retreating back into the swamp. Very few people can put up with me, and I can't blame them. I am a constant contradiction. I annoy myself.

There's a contradiction in your thinking," I said. "If I took your dirty money, you wouldn't be able to trust my honesty.