Quotes About Contradiction

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really strong empathy with all kinds of warped and destructive modes of thinking. I don't know why, but those things co-exist.

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

I don't see any holy wars being fought in the name of Satan.

Nothing was just one thing; there were worlds within worlds. Those of us who trod the line between were blessed and burdened with both.

What if opposites could be combined and transcended, paradox embraced, a whole life lived in contradictory case?

Quootla had a suffix, - utl , that could be glued to the end of anything—nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, small rodents—and meant the word itself plus its opposite, simultaneously. It didn't always translate into Goreddi. Time/no-time almost made sense; blue/orange or fall/rise or dog/whatever-the-opposite-of-dog-is were perfectly intelligible in Quootla but boggling to nearly everyone else.

He chuckled into my hair, enjoying this. I loved him terribly just then, how he puzzled through obscure scholarship and reveled in ideas, never mind that he'd called my mind hell.

He seemed simultaneously strong and soft, as if he had ended up with a lot of muscles rather by accident and didn't care about keeping them.

We live in a world of fortune and luxury, yet how poor and sad we are at times.

Please don't joke and bleed at the same time.

Things are more complicated than some can admit. People are stupider and less demonic than some can admit.

So now Stephen must actually learn at first hand hwo straight can run the path of true love, in direct contradiction to the time-honoured proverb. Must realize more clearly than ever, that love is only permissible to those who are cut in every respect to life's pattern.

A man may love a paradox without either losing his wit or his honesty.

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

A great actor is not the one who showcases his acting skills, but the one who lives up to each individual's varied perceptions, making them believe to be right from their perspective, howsoever contradictory it may seem so!

He loved her in his mind; She hated him in her being! What's more authentic?"

No man is a complete Sinner nor Saint, we're an influx of both intensities just varying in degrees!

Not everyone who owns it, Loves it; nor everyone who Loves it, Can own it!

The only good thing about people not taking me seriously is that I'm not serious myself!

They want my heart in the right place but when I look down it beats on the left