Quotes About Contradiction

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

Mars knew that love wasn't all red-paper valentines and candy hearts. Love wasn't always joy. Love could be hot-blooded pain down to the bone. Sometimes love was despair. And sometimes love was wrong.

When your emotions or your behavior are contrary to your own self-image, it's time to stand back and reassess.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

My strength is my weakness and weakness is my strength

Orgasm coincides with a general hardening of the arteries.

The DARRYL part of him that exploded on stage made its spellbinding, turbulent presence most felt off stage when we made love. He was a symphony of contradiction; tender, yet fierce; sweet, yet riotous; impassioned, yet leisurely; giving, yet unquenchable. We lay there naked on the carpet a long time afterward, both too depleted—and too content—to move.

He drank his shot and remembered that Madeline had called her last boyfriend a drunk, and he had a good feeling about that, too. In his experience, women who said they hated drunks went home with them over and over again.

The opposite of a plain truth, Neils Bohr liked to repeat, is a plain falsehood. But the opposite of a deep truth is another deep truth.

I have a pretty classic look, so people think I'm pretty calm but I'm the opposite - I can't sit still.

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

I wasn't raised in a family that cared about how you look. The fact that I have made my living in acting, where that matters, that really feels antithetical to me as a person.

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

I'm a good Catholic girl in the way that Madonna is. In the sense that I'm not that good at all.

I like everything that is wrong about Chicago.

I'm never quite cool, if you know what I mean. I'm basically the worst, best superhero.

I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and I'm a great believer that you can't have too conservative a President nor too liberal a Supreme Court. So I'm a walking contradiction. I believe that you should try to really protect people's rights in every way, and also, people should be allowed to do what they do.

I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.

I'm pretty sure I don't have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They're all either about, like, 'I hate you,' or 'You make me hate me.'

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.