Quotes About Contradiction

This sentence is not true

His head was swimming freestyle, but someone in his stomach was doing the butterfly.

That isn't to say that if you get involved in a paradox a few things won't strike you as being very odd, but if you've got through life without that already happening to you, then I don't know which Universe you've been living in, but it isn't this one.

A bit like a preying mantis that doesn't prey—a non-preying mantis if you like.

Su cabeza nadaba a estilo libre, pero en su estómago alguien practicaba el mariposa.

He should have known it was all wrong the moment they started hanging grand pianos over the sea-monster pool in the atrium.

As he grinned his heart screamed unbearably

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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

Thirty seconds into the conversation, and already he'd blown it. Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

He hoped and prayed there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here, and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

The whole Silicon Valley is oxymoronic—geeky and rich and hip.

One contradiction of the human heart is this: God refuses to see any one person as unique in his or her relationship to Him, and yet we humans see each other as bottomless wells of creativity and uniqueness.

You see, when someone says "it's impossible,' I have this very bad habit, I can't help myself, I immediately contradict that person in the most positive terms possible. A very bad habit, but one that I find hard to break.

The idea of sticking the body deep in the earth when you wanted the soul to go up, not down, always seemed perverse to him.

She felt his shoulders began to convulse, faintly, regularly, almost as if he was weeping. But that was, of course, impossible, as Pendergast would never cry.

New York City without

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

The truth is people are an extraordinary mixture of heroism and cowardice.

Yes, I like that—loyalty, I mean. It's out of fashion nowadays. She's an odd character, that girl—proud, reserved, stubborn, and terribly warm-hearted underneath, I fancy.

Why the worst women should always attract the best men is something hard to fathom!

The great merit of being a doctor," said Sir Bartholomew, "is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.

I don't feel as though I've got the heart to eat anything," and then partook of everything offered her,

She was reported to be the most beautiful woman in England. It was also rumoured that she was the stupidest.