Quotes About Contradiction

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

Curious how often you Humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.

Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good.

If you force me to pick one color, it'd be Black... It covers up the things inside of me that I don't want to be known. Well, for the same reason, black is the color I hate, too.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

A lot of comedians today have misunderstood the concept of a subversive comedian. If you really want to be subversive, you have to please and offend in equal amounts.

The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.

People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed." It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role?

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!

It was a perfect marrige. She didn't want to and he couldn't

The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.

It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

It's always the people who don't want things who get them.

He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

So I did, my young lover. 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.

And where did this insane notion of buying loyalty come from? It's a contradiction in terms.

Innocence was a blade of glory, yet it could blind on both sides.

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.

His heart was vast, it was true. He was a thing of sentimentality and compassion, so contrary to his bestial appearance, his simian fire. But such creatures were vulnerable. Their hearts bled too freely, and the scars never knitted true.