Quotes About Contradiction

Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window.

We are contrary creatures, us humans, but that isn't something we need be afraid of, or even much troubled by. And if you make a list of those people who worship consistency, you'll find they're one and all tyrants or would-be tyrants. Ruling over thousands, or over a husband or a wife, or some cowering child. Never fear contradiction, Cutter, it is the very heart of diversity.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

Given how majestically slim she always was, it's a little odd to admit that I can remember bellowing that Whitney Houston was The Heavyweight Champion of the World! on the MTV News floor back in the '90s.

I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

Grey characters don't only mean broody characters. A totally smitten lover boy can be equally grey if written that way.

In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.

No, I'm a very normal and orthodox person that goes out of their way to present eccentricity. It's not that I do that so much now but I've been doing it for so many years that it's become routine now.

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe, we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.

There is nothing more unsociable than man, and nothing more sociable: unsociable by his vice, sociable by his nature.

One may be humble out of pride.

Åžu insan ne korkunç bir hayvan ki, kendi kendinden bu kadar iÄŸreniyor, kendi zevklerini ba??n?n belas? say?yor.

cada qual aprecia o odor de seu esterco: Nossos olhos não veem para trás. Cem vezes por dia zombanos de nós mesmos ao zombarmos de nossos vizinhos; os defeitos que detestamos em outrem são ainda mais visíveis em nós, e no entanto, os admiramos com maravilhosa imprudência sem perceber a contradição.

Kendini canl? iken ölü göstereni ölü iken canl? görebilir herkes.

I take so great a pleasure in being judged and known, that it is almost indifferent to me in which of the two forms I am so: my imagination so often contradicts and condemns itself, that 'tis all one to me if another do it, especially considering that I give his reprehension no greater authority than I choose; but I break with him, who carries himself so high, as I know of one who repents his advice, if not believed, and takes it for an affront if it be not immediately followed.

If the Light and the Dark were so absolute, why couldn't they give her absolute answers? Why did everything have to be so confused?

How wonderful that we have met with paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. —NIELS BOHR

Bilim ÅŸüphesiz ki iki taraf? keskin bir k?l?çt?r; çözüme ulaÅŸt?rd??? say?da problem yarat?r, ve yaratt??? her problem bir öncekinden hep daha zordur.