Quotes About Contradiction

The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.

Resucitan los muertos? Los libros dicen que no, la noche grita que sí

she (Lydia) shrugged and moved away, a slight smile on her face. *Men,* she thought. *They're such boys!* The self-contradiction in that thought totally escaped her.

Northern journalist Gianni Brera played on the contradiction between Diego's physical appearance and his grace on the field, dubbing him 'the divine abortion

When we risk no contradiction,It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.

the magic of love runs at cross purposes with the rhythm of living...

the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...

as dark did with light and weakness with strength. Nothing was simple or pure;

In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

Maine is a beautiful place that I paradoxically want to hoard to myself and share with everyone I meet.

LOGIC The principle governing human intellection. Its nature may be deduced from examining the following propositions, both of which are held by human beings to be true and often by the same people: I cant so you musnt, and I can but you musnt.

A tailored and pleated version of men's striped trousers flapped around her long legs and pinched in tightly at her waist – a black silk shirt, complete with silver cufflinks, rippled from broad shoulders across a small bosom. A single strand of pearls at the the throat. This was hardly a gesture to femininity, for the whole appearance contrived femininity in irony.

I've succeeded, I guess, but sometimes maybe to succeed is to fail

The Bible just said 'Thou shalt not kill', then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

all good books are bad!

I feel Elsa's arms around me. I can hear her crying. That's weird for a lot of reasons. Elsa doesn't cry, and she never puts her arms around me.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

"Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say. Colours seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

For one thing, while humans traditionally divided themselves up into lovers and fighters, I considered myself living evidence that that was a false binary, having no skill with either set of tools.

It was perfectly possible to love someone objectly when you could barely stand to be in the room with them. Of all the mysteries of life, Sebastien thought, that one might be the greatest.

Maybe you could feel all sorts of things, all of them mutually contradictory.