Quotes About Contradiction

Lo que había esperado resultaba ser su perdición y lo que había odiado su salvación.

He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest – he had seen beautiful things and horrible things – but up until now he had not known that one and the same creature can be both, that beauty can be terrifying.

Yes, and you've never been able to understand the suggestiveness of paradox and contradiction. That's your problem. You live and breathe paradox and contradiction, but you can no more see the beauty of them than the fish can see the beauty of the water

Every form of strength covers one weakness and creates another, and therefore every form of strength is also a form of weakness and every weakness a strength.

National Sarcasm Society: Like We Need Your Support.

when presented with duplicates of the same ulcer, every doctor had contradicted himself

What is it with you freedom-loving Americans? he asked. Live free or die. I don't get it. I say, "Regulate me gently. I'd rather live.

Morgan Stanley wanted to be able to trade for itself in a way it could not trade for its customers; it just didn't want to seem as if it wanted to.

While he dropped fortunes at roulette and insisted on his guests having the best view and every delicacy in restaurants, he himself would often walk home or take the Underground rather than choose the comfort of a cab.

I wondered if this wasn't a case of making the ideal an enemy of the good, but Salatin was convinced that industrial organic was finally a contradiction in terms. I decided I had to find out if he was right.

I've been simultaneously drawn to and repelled from Hollywood for years.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

You look at someone like Beyonce singing 'Single Ladies,' when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

When I was younger I had my problems, and one of the hardest things I had to come to terms with was that I had to believe in something that contradicted what I was doing. I had to genuflect... I had to confess what I thought were sins, but not really sins, but what some people thought were sins.

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.