Quotes About Contradiction

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.

Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco

Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the noblest work of God.

I said nothing of the sort.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight

For he did not seem to know any way to do a person a kindness but by killing him.

The average human being is a perverse creature; and when he isn't that, he is a practical joker. The result to the other person concerned is about the same: that is, he is made to suffer.

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.

In that peculiar contradiction that serves as connective tissue in so many relationships, it is possible to see that she loves Navidson almost as much as she has no room for him.

I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS.

I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty and I wonder how the same can be both.

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

Everything was good. But it was awful, too.

Now more than ever, 33 Himmel Street was a place of silence, and it did not go unnoticed that the Duden Dictionary was completely and utterly mistaken, especially with its related words. Silence was not quiet or calm, and it was not peace.