Quotes About Contradiction

If you're pretty, you want to be ugly. If you're loud, you want to play quiet. You always want to challenge people's expectations.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

What we now face is the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing needs for a better life.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.

I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.

You can see love in war and you can also see war in love!

Love is hateWar is PeaceNo is YesAnd we're all free.

wars are fought so that peace can be achieved talk about irony

He who is absolutely right is absolutely wrong

Isn't it funny how true peace describes war and chaos?

Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.

My favorite part of going to a wedding is ruining the wedding.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.