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Quotes About Contradiction

Sexual feeling is distinct from affection, even though they often conspire, but this fact runs against the grain of classic feminist arguments.
~ Siri Hustvedt
it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I probably can't stand you, but that doesn't mean I don't love you.
~ Seth Harris
Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.
~ William John Locke
My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.
~ William Shakespeare
Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer.
~ Pauly Shore
Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.
~ Richard Wurmbrand
If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.
~ Amy Winehouse
I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.
~ Anacreon
Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.
~ Rajneesh
I love nature but against my better judgment.
~ Werner Herzog
We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
~ Anne Enright
People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.
~ Anne Roiphe
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.
~ George R. R. Martin
Why do we love love when love seems to hate us?
~ Jazmine Sullivan
Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?
~ Kerry Thornley
It never made sense for you to love me.
~ Stephenie Meyer
I'm probably the worst person in the world to give advice to puppeteers. My whole attitude towards puppets from the beginning was not one of love, but it was like anti-puppetry.
~ Wayne White
I love horses and I only ask-don't let me know which one we are eating today.
~ Will Rogers
We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.
~ Marie de France
It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.
~ Mark Hart
The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.
~ Mason Cooley