Quotes About Contradiction

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

There was a sweetness about her that was as unexpected as it was disturbing because it made her so much more vulnerable than he wanted her to be.

I am and not: I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself, my other self I turned.

And we have seen how Rousseau's insistence on creating a world that makes sense ultimately vitiates his attempt to educate a child for a world that does not.

Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida, swamped by incongruity and paradox, and I have to start all over again.

He likes pretending to be stern and cynical, perhaps to hide the fact that he is a softie and deeply sentimental. He

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

Soft, pretty things don't belong in a dead zone.

He wished to remain elusive even to himself. He was full of contradiction—penitential confessional eagerness and a secrecy that kept him opaque and in motion.

Ghislaine Maxwell was the classic contradiction in terms: insecure and needy but overpowering and in your face. A girl with both an inferiority and a god complex. She was a bit like a Labrador; the more someone kicked her the more she loved them.

Americans had to tie every radical aspiration into a puritanical knot.

You're the very nicest jerk I know.

You know, you're kind of squeamish for such a lethal person

for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well in my thoughts.

Ironically, her logical, if demeaning, reply is the only one that comforts me.

I can love you and be pissed at the same time. They're not mutually exclusive.

It was such a simple thing, and yet it broke and fixed my heart all at once.

maybe love itself is a paradox, a figment of our collective imaginations!

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

There's an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He's mingling, but he's somewhat detached.

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much for sportswear. I think it's over.