Quotes About Contradiction

I'm Jewish, but I'm totally not.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

I find it a touch hypocritical that some who argue that we should not leave the E.U. Single Market are prepared to countenance the break-up of the U.K. Single Market, which is vitally important to the prosperity of all parts of the U.K.

I hate touring. But being onstage is one of the absolute best things I know in my life. And it is so good, it makes up for all the bad.

Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

I wanted to try and trace the genuine origins of 'Johnny' and how he so successfully staged this takeover of 'Michael Pennington.' 'Johnny' is a contradiction to who I am as a person. I'm not very good at confrontation, I have a tendency to internalise and to carry things around.

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

For years we've been playing and writing songs that sound happy. And yet if you listen, the words are all like "My brains are falling out of my ears; would someone please pull me together?"

My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great together.

Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.

Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.

I'm catholic in the same way, that if a cow was born in a tree, it's a bird!

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.

That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.