Quotes About Contradiction

But, she wondered now, where was the crime in that most human of capacities: to carry in one's heart a contradiction, to leave it unchallenged, immune to reconciliation; indeed, to be two people at once, each true to herself, and neither denying the presence of the other? What vast laws of cosmology were broken by this human talent? Did the universe split asunder? Did reality lose its way?

How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.

The human mind is both genius and pathetic, brilliant and idiotic.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand.

How can there be self-help groups?

It is like putting a dehumidifier and a humidifier in the same room and letting them fight it out.

Smoking cures weight problems, eventually.

Is it possible to be totally partial?

I plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

She'd wanted to put him at ease, whilst also revelling in his discomfort. She couldn't understand her feelings.

You can't bear to think that Valraven is like the rest of us-a mixture of attributes, both good and bad.

I want to hate you, yet I can't. There is something more to you than what you show, something I don't know.

It was the sea that injured her. Why should its produce heal her?

There was something repellant about the face before her, yet also seductive.

Used as he was to commanding attention, it did not rest well with him to be contradicted.

What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time

I have a problem. I am an intellectual, but at the same time I am not very clever.

They would swear that the United States was their number one enemy, and yet carrying a pack of Marlboro Lights seemed to be a sign of privilege and class.

That was the inherent contradiction. This was a nation backed into a corner. They did not want to open up, and yet they had no choice but to move toward engagement if they wanted to survive. They had built the entire foundation of their country on isolationism and wanting to kill Americans and South Koreans, yet they needed to learn English and feed their children with foreign money.

I have a potent degree of love that is so unwise in one world that it is wisdom in another.