Quotes About Contradiction

I was torn between anger and amusement.

Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.

On the one hand maybe I've remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven't the true faith.

The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."

What I'd really like to say about stardom is it gave me everything i never wanted.

Without contraries there is no progression" (Blake)—

Whatever people say I am, I'm not.

Žinau, kad gyvenimas puikus, bet taip pat žinau, kad mes dažnai j? subjaurojame ir paver?iame kvailu farsu arba šiurpia tragedija, arba abiem iš karto; ir galiausiai žmogus nebežino, k? daryti - ar verkti, ar juoktis. Verkti lengviau, bet juoktis kur kas geriau - tik ne garsiai!

Too much magnifying of man or matter, doth irritate contradiction, and procure envy and scorn.

Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.

I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers.

Even in a lot of hip-hop music, they tell you don't give your heart to a woman. But many of the most successful rappers are head-over-heels in love.

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Hate is irrational. I am a rational person.

We're living in interesting times, where people seem to be able to say things which are contrary to what you would call rationalism.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

Sometimes I'm not even really quite sure why I do what I do - do I do it because I like to show that I'm an educated person to exploit these certain things artistically and, in my opinion, in a very smart way - or am I just a punk rock brat that likes pushing people's buttons and relishing in the negative reaction? I can't tell.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.