Quotes About Contradiction

It's a beautiful paradox: In order to remember, we have to forget to some degree.

But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath.

We are the worst of ourselves and also the best. They can try and shock it out of us but it doesn't really go away, not entirely. And that's pl. It made me feel great to realize that. It made me feel almost whole again

We are only falsehood, duplicity, and contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves." —BLAISE PASCAL

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

One paper says I'm Catholic and the other says I'm Jewish. I guess that's fitting because as a Methodist I'm meant to be undetermined some of the time.

We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

India lives in several centuries at the same time.

I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.

Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.

Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.

To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.

Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all).

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.