Quotes About Contradiction

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

I don't like half the folks I love.

You couldn't truly love anything if you didn't hate at least something. Indeed, perhaps you couldn't truly love anything if you didn't hate almost everything.

There's 2 things I love in this world: Burritos and Murder

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.

Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.

I needed to hate someone and you're the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

He's a typical existentialist. And that's a contradiction in terms if ever there was one.

Sometimes it even seemed like a relief to him that there was someone prepared to be rude to him, to contradict him or tell him he was being horrible.

At the very core of conservatism lies comfort with contradiction, acceptance of the fact that life is not fair; that ideals must forever be goals, not destinations; that the perfect is not the enemy of the good but one standard by which we understand what is good in the first place—though not the only standard.

The American Revolution was a successful revolution precisely because it was grounded in both realism and idealism. Written deep into the structure of our Constitution is a profound comfort with contradiction. It sets faction against faction, pits each branch of government against the other, dilutes the excesses of democracy, and holds the executive accountable to the people. By being so grounded in realism, it can hold the weight of our ideals.

There's that expression, David always uses it: 'I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.