Quotes About Contradiction

Am I grave?', he asked. 'I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear.' 'You look as if you were taking me to a funeral. If that's a grin, your ears are very near together.

if nocturnal meditations in the Colosseum are recommended by the poets, they are deprecated by the doctors.

We please the people we don't care for, we displease those we do!

I've not made her my bosom-friend; but I like her in spite of her faults. Ah well, said Ralph, I'm afraid I shall dislike her in spit of her merits.

Mr. Longdon gave a headshake that was both sad and sharp. "It's all wrong. But YOU'RE all right!" he added in a different tone as he walked hastily away.

But Daisy, on this occasion, continued to present herself as an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence.

The world of men and women are making merry in the cemetery grounds. They are having sexual intercourse, God bless them, and I am alone in the Land of Fuck.

What if at the last moment, when the banquet table is set and the cymbals clash, there should appear suddenly, and wholly without warning, a silver platter on which even the blind could see that there is nothing more, and nothing less, than two enormous lumps of shit.

Recuerdo muy bien cómo disfrutaba con mi sufrimiento. Era como llevarse un cachorro a la cama. De vez en cuando te arañaba... y entonces sentías auténtico espanto. Por lo general, no sentías miedo: siempre podías soltarlo o cortarle la cabeza.

I would like to suffocate with grief but instead I give birth to a rock.

A world without hope, but no despair.

Hay algo perverso en las mujeres... en el fondo son todas masoquistas.

When God speaks, he does not give new revelation about himself that contradicts what he has already revealed in Scripture. Rather, God speaks to give application of his Word to the specific circumstances in your life. When God speaks to you, he is not writing a new book of Scripture; rather, he is applying to your life what he has already said in his Word.

Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

to be hated cordially is only a left-handed compliment

But this whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it.

For some of these same Quakers are the most sanguinary of all sailors and whale-hunters. They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.

They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.

When people think of me, they think about me knocking catchers down and knocking second basemen down and yelling at pitchers. But when I took the spikes off after the game, I was a nice guy when I went home.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

Yogi seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right.

I'm a Yogi and a tea drinker, and having a gun is the last thing that one would expect of me as a human being.