Quotes About Contradiction

If you become famous and you start making money, then people want to give you things. It's the exact opposite of how it's supposed to be.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'

Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.

Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.

I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information.

What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.

And you know, the people who hate kids and don't want kids always end up having 50 of them.

This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.

Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Make love, not war. Unless you're Loki, in which case: do what you want.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

War creates peace like hate creates love.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.

Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

I can't believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you.

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.