Quotes About Contradiction

When something is dirty you wash it. That's what my mum always said.Yet...When you have dirty money and you launder it, people jump up and down.I guess that's life.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

How can I have morning sickness when I don't get up till noon?

She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." - Alaska

Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.

I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa.

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

Nature is nobody's ally.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.