Quotes About Contradiction

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

A lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways?

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

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.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

John makes no effort to reconcile systematically these sayings about divine predestination and moral responsibility. He sees no contradiction that faith is the free decision of a person's will and at the same time the gift of God's grace. This makes it clear that "the decision of faith is not a human meritorious achievement like the Jewish works of the Law, but simply the fitting answer, made possible by the grace of God, to the revelation given by Jesus."20

Pessimism is as American as apple pie — frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

At the risk of sounding crude, wooing you is like playing basketball with a porcupine. No compliment goes unpunished." "Then stop complimenting.

De las tres formas de Estado, la democracia es, en el sentido propio de la palabra, necesariamente un despotismo, porque crea un poder ejecutivo en el que todos deciden sobre alguien y, en su caso, contra alguien (es decir, contra quien no esté de acuerdo con los demás), con lo que deciden todos, que no son realmente todos. Esto es una contradicción de la voluntad general consigo misma y con la libertad.

I feel so depressed. I have to be merry and bright while I just want to cry.

Of course I love Arnold, but I can hate him too, and it can go along with love that one never forgives certain things.

Death contradicts ownership and self.

Perhaps the reality is in the suffering. But it can't be. Love promises happiness. Art promises happiness. Yet it isn't exactly a promise . . .

Franca breathed the tranquility of the house, yet it was not tranquil, she breathed its goodness, but it was not good.

You said you were having fun. Well, yes and no, strictly speaking I was in hell. Perhaps I have always been there. One can have fun in hell.

An unjust law," said R. Daneel evenly, "is a contradiction in terms.

Cleon II was Lord of the Universe. Cleon II also suffered from a painful and undiagnosed ailment. By the queer twists of human affairs, the two statements are not mutually exclusive, nor even particularly incongruous.