Quotes About Contradiction

Absolute terror seemed paradoxically to have lent a lucidity to her thoughts and words that was entirely out of character.

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

Los chilenos veneran al Papa, pero no le hacen caso en asuntos sexuales y sus concecuencias, porque un anciano celibe, de buen pasar economico, que no ha trabajado en su vida, poco sabe de eso.

La idea de una revolución pacífica en democracia y con plena libertad era un contrasentido.

I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

We sing about the North, but live as far south as possible.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

I am a deeply superficial person.

They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.

The prickly thorn often bears soft roses.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

You cannot have it both ways.

You can and you can't, You will and you won't; You'll be damn'd if you do, You'll be damn'd if you don't.

Angling is an innocent cruelty.

Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little; we are all so constituted by nature that no one can possibly entirely approve of us.