Quotes About Contradiction

I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't.

The party of Kennedy is also the party of Eastland. The party of Javits is also the party of Goldwater.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

A secret lab is considered by many to be the physical manifestation of a spark's mind. Thus they tend to be rather individualistic. Some are spotlessly clean; some are filled with dangerous trash. Some are ruthlessly efficient; some are filled with suicidal deathtraps. Needless to say, sparks are usually vocally dismissive of the labs of others, while surreptitiously making notes about things they'd wished they'd thought of themselves.

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The worst men often give the best advice.

What's that got to do with it?" Sam said. "A humorist is a man whose soul is black, black, but who turns his curdles of darkness into explosions of light. But when the light dies out, the black returns.

It's the very absurdity of the British which makes them so impossible to radicalize. And why we should envy them.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

Freud is the least confused of modern minds because he has no message; he accepts contradiction, and builds his psychology on it.

statisticians sleeping with their feet in an oven and their head in a freezer because the average temperature is comfortable.

Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. / The honest thief, the tender murderer, / The superstitious atheist.

The sense comes back to me of life as it always was then, an affliction even blinder because wondrously filled with sweetness.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.

People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.

I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, and then I had this voice like I spend my life in a bar, and I said things that were alarming and had ideas that didn't make sense.

We're told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There's an inherent contradiction.

When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are degrading to women and offend me to my core. I am mortified by my music choices.

If I've got a confidence problem, it's that my self-esteem is entirely too high.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't compute.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.