Quotes About Contradiction

No matter what they are in life, in memory they always seem to rearrange themselves in the opposite manner. All pleasures are seen as foreshortened and hasty and fleeting, and all pain lingering.

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

What gentlemen say and what they think are two different things.

You're a heartless creature but that's part of your charm. Though you've got more charm than the law allows.

You know I don't read novels,' she said and, trying to equal his jesting mood, went on: 'Besides, you once said it was the height of bad form for husbands and wives to love each other.' 'I once said too God damn many things,' he retorted abruptly and rose to his feet.

SCARLETT O'HARA WAS NOT BEAUTIFUL

You know she said I was going to marry a gentleman with jet-black hair and a long black mustache, and I don't like black-haired gentlemen.

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

Technology. It's like science, only useless.

He sounded like he was used to people swearing at him, which made no damnedsense, because he was gorgeous and a hero.

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You're seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you're worth.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.

Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.