Quotes About Contradiction

Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these people described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to.

And F. Scott Fitzgerald: The sign of a first-rate intelligence is to be able to hold two opposing ideas at the same time and not have your head explode, he said. Maybe not those words exactly, but something like that.

Deep down, I'm a small-town girl who has it drilled in her DNA to grow up, marry, have kids, settle down. Maybe I will knock the same theory in my kids' heads, too. I'm also liberal, a political enthusiast, a bookworm, and the least bit ambitious to pull off a soap drama queen act.

I've used soap dishes as ashtrays in the best hotels in the world.

I just want to be good at soccer and have a normal life; it is a little ironic that you can't have both.

I think, probably, socially, in some ways New York may be the least American city. It represents too many things that Americans really don't entirely want in their lives.

Our society is full of hypocrites and irrational people.

Solutions are not the answer.

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

Some things can be quite stupid yet interesting. Life can be like that.

You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact it's anything but.

Though it's safe to say there are a whole lotta American gals who agree with the core ideals of feminism, they are somehow nevertheless watching 'Say Yes to the Dress' by the millions.

Love has two faces, one makes you alive and the other destroys you...

The only thing that feels right is as wrong as it can get

How he loved and yetwished to leave you: always both, at once.

We learn that all life is scarce yet abundant. Profane yet sacred. Loving yet hateful. Enlightened yet obscured. Isolated yet collective. That life is somehow derived from love.

I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever....

My heart is one part predatorAnd one part saint!Most of it is crazyAnd a little bit too saneIt falls for allBut beats for noneIt's one part brokenStill shoots like a machine gun!

sometime hate is just confused love!

End of the SummerIt was end of the summerAnd my heart was brokenbut i was smiling, laughing, making jokesLike there was nothing bleeding insideAs always.

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.

He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me.