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Quotes About Contradiction

I hate the feeling of falling - I'll never jump from a plane - but I love a good roller coaster. Go figure!
~ Ricki Lake
I love shooting guns. I would never shoot an animal or hunt, but I probably would be a very good hit woman. It's hand-in-glove for me.
~ Rose McGowan
My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.
~ Rula Jebreal
To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each other, saying 'yes' and 'no'.
~ Sam Keen
I happen to love football so much and hate myself for loving it.
~ Steve Almond
You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.
~ Steven Morrissey
To love you was pleasant enough. And, oh! 'tis delicious to hate you!
~ Thomas Moore
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.
~ Thomas Carlyle
We love the things we pretend to laugh at.
~ Thomas Merton
She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
~ William Faulkner
We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
~ Billy Idol
I guess I'm half traditionalist, half modern girl and I just never... I love the digital world and I love electronica and after I shoot everything is digital, but I just... I don't know.
~ Carol Friedman
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
~ Catullus
It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.
~ Celia Thaxter
Love can make us fiends as well as angels.
~ Charles Kingsley
You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.
~ Clive Barker
This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
~ Ellen Glasgow
The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld