Quotes About Contradiction

I miss him every single day," she said. "I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don't understand you at all stick around. Ever noticed that?

He was, after all, Darrow's rock star, its heartthrob-musical-genius-Shakespeare, the boy who made spontaneous rapping, poetry, and wearing tweed caps cool (all small miracles unto themselves)—the kid everyone loved, longed for, yet simultaneously wished dead. He had it. An energy force field.

Love is the opposite of good sense.

There is a very strange contradiction in what we are saying and doing," said Clark Clifford in a meeting on February 9 with the president and his top military advisers. Clifford

He hated it as if he were about to love it—unforgivingly, irrationally, sadly.

You believe in entropy, which postulates that all phenomena tend to sink to lower levels of organization and energy, and in evolution, which postulates that the history of life has been just the opposite. People like you credit both theories. It's de rigueur . Is that reason rational? I say, f*ck off.

The United States has the most powerful government, with the longest reach, of any nation in history. It is also the Brokest Nation in History. Resolving that contradiction is unlikely to be pretty.

If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

The Khmer Rouge is in the casino business now!' Casinos? Run by the most vicious, hard-core Commie mass murderers in history? Well, why not check it out?

Our subject is, you see, impelled towards the good by, paradoxically, being impelled towards evil. The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress. To counter these the subject has to switch to a diametrically opposed attitude.

Ser bueno puede llegar a ser algo horrible.

Reason and faith, the Archbishop said, do not of necessity cohere. Reason saith that water will not be transformed to wine. Faith has a contrary answer.

Algunas veces no es grato ser bueno, pequeño 6655321. Ser bueno puede llega a ser algo horrible. Y te lo digo sabiendo que puede ser una afirmación muy contradictoria. ¿Qué quiere Dios, el bien o que uno elija el camino del bien? Quizás el hombre que elige el mal es en cierto modo mejor que aquel a quien se le impone el bien.

Ser bom pode não ser agradável, 6655321. Pode ser horrível ser bom. E quando digo isto a você, eu compreendo como soa contraditório. Eu sei que vou passar muitas noites sem dormir por causa disto. O que é que Deus quer? Deus quer a bondade ou a escolha da bondade? O homem que escolhe o mal é talvez de uma certa forma melhor do que aquele a quem a bondade é imposta.

Iyi bir insan olmak çok da hoÅŸ olmayabilir. Iyi bir insan olmak korkunç olabilir. Bunu sana söylerken, kulaÄŸa ne kadar çeliÅŸkili geldiÄŸini biliyorum...Tanr? ne ister? Tanr? iyilik mi ister yoksa iyi olma seçeneÄŸini mi? KötülüÄŸü seçen bir insan, kendisine iyilik dayat?lm?? bir insandan baz? aç?lardan daha üstün olabilir mi?

In books, you love somebody and want them, win them or lose them. In real life, so often, you love them and don't want them, or want them and don't love them.

Lovell was an odd mixture of realism and romanticism; more specifically, he was, like quite a lot of people, romantic about being a realist.

I don't like anybody or anything, said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.

There are moments in which stupid people say clever things, obtuse people say sharp things, and good-natured people say ill-natured things.

He had a pride in being a poor man of a high family; he had a pride in repudiating the very family of which he was proud; and he had a special pride in keeping his pride silently to himself.

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

No one ever on seeing Mr Crawley took him to be a happy man, or a weak man, or an ignorant man, or a wise man.

When a man tells me that a horse is an armchair, I always tell him to put the brute into his bedroom.

Baz? bilinçler vard?r ki, basit bir çeliÅŸki yüzünden kendilerini öldürebilirler ve bunun için de deli, saptanm?? ve kataloÄŸa girmiÅŸ bir deli olmak gerekmez; tersine, saÄŸl?kl? olmak ve akl? kendi taraf?nda bulundurmak yeterlidir.