Quotes About Contradiction

I didn't know then that this was how deep emotion most often comes, from opposite directions and at once, when you are least aware and farthest from yourself.

It really is too bad that sometimes inconvenient facts surface to thumb their noses at remarkably elegant hypotheses.

Charlotte sighed inwardly. The problem was not that she didn't always understand the full spectrum of human emotions. It was that even when she did, she still gave those close to her the opposite of what they wished for.

And then Sherlock Holmes had turned out to be a woman with loose morals and no remorse.

Nature is being kind without knowing it, as nature can be cruel without knowing it.

Right! I mean wrong!" Kylie was getting exasperated

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

You can't argue with someone whose premises are completely different from yours, where there is not even an inch of common ground

We are what we are, and half of what we are is what we are not.

I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.

Orks ir tas, kurš priec?jas, kad b?rns cieš, bet v?l laim?g?ks tas ir, ja b?rns mirst.

When you write, everything is possible, even the very opposite of what you are.

Happy, you really are a first-class gloomy bugger," JC said affectionately. "You could gloom for the Olympics, and still take a Bronze in existential paranoia." Everyone has to be good at something," said Happy smiling in spite of himself.

You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.

Being told when to shit, shower, shave, eat, and sleep isn't my idea of paradise. But then again, Paradise, where i grew up, wasn't paradise either. I'm wondering if paradise is just some word in the dictionary with the definition: this doesn't fucking exist. --Caleb to himself

It reminds me of myself - seemingly perfect on the outside but inside is all a mush.

He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason

Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.

There exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single central vision ... and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory ... The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes.

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

He led his regiment from behind—He found it less exciting.

I was afraid of it, because I liked it. It excited me.

Because I knew so much about him, because I had been close to him, I couldn't bring the various fragments of my experience with him into a single coherent image. The truth was mobile and contradictory, and I was willing to live with that.