Quotes About Contradiction

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that you're going to do that and still love yourself.

I absolutely, positively hate this beautiful, magical feeling.

You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.

I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.

What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved

I want these gentle hands... and this kind smile... although I should not want such a thing.

Everything has its opposite within it.Love can be very destructive if you mishandle it.Pain can help you find ways to grow and change.Fear can eventually lead you to a path of hope.

You think I'm perfect, but I feel like a songbird trapped in a cage.

I hate and love. And why, perhaps you'll ask.I don't know: but I feel, and I'm tormented.

And then he cried, till he laughed again, and laughed and cried together, just as a woman does. I

he hoped he'd go to hell, for his mother was so pious that she'd be sure to go to heaven

And a new irony had entered the picture: I was now hearing about how irritating the Left had become from people on the Left. One evening over drinks someone sighed to me, "I don't know how we got so annoying." And at a dinner a middle-aged liberal scoffed, "Oh, I can't deal with the Resistance anymore"—and this from a gay man who'd been a proud member of it.

But to feel both innocent and superior because of my innocence doesn't seem terribly innocent.

Christ, I walk through an inferno unscatched, then singe my ass on the flight back. [...] You guys are the ... the heart and brain of the Great Machine. Yeah? Then you're the inflamed anus. You're not the brain, by the way.

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.

Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different.

They followed her, walking supererogatively on tiptoe, as though afraid to awaken the saints in whom they had never believed.

The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement, but the opposite of a great truth may be another great truth.

Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

O era contradictorio, o había que redefinir el término improvisación. Siempre se piensa que improvisar es actuar sin pensar. Pero si uno hace una cosa por un impulso, o porque le da la gana, o directamente sin saber por qué, de todas maneras es uno el que la hace, y uno tiene una historia que lo ha llevado a ese punto de su vida; y entonces, lejos de no haber pensado ese acto, no podría haberlo pensado más: lo ha estado pensando cada minuto desde que nació.

Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

He's such an asshole you'd never believe he could be religious, but he is.

I am speaking of University Education, which implies an extended range of reading, which has to deal with standard works of genius, or what are called the classics of a language: and I say, from the nature of the case, if Literature is to be made a study of human nature, you cannot have a Christian Literature. It is a contradiction in terms to attempt a sinless Literature of a sinful man.