Quotes About Contradiction

Gloria once told me that your best quality is also your worst.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Se dice que Dios ama la modestia de los hombres pero los humanos la desprecian.

Then," said Joseph, "you also know, as the Renaissance Italians knew that politics and moral ethics never mix. Politics and ethics are a contradiction in terms. An honest politician is either a hypocrite—or he is doomed.

a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

actual events were more complicated and less dramatic, as actual events always are, so I have taken liberties to make a better narrative. I've told a story in order to make a case for the truth. I recognize the contradiction here.

With brain power that has led man to the moon, we are still unable to decide the issue of war? They research for the cures of killer diseases, without looking towards the one that maims, kills and uproots whole nations? What a contradiction.

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

I used to pretend I was into speed garage when I hated it.

It's really interesting to play someone you wouldn't want to ever spend more than a couple of drinks with - but who has redeemable characteristics.

Faith and reason overpower each other throughout one's life, which results in contradiction, but the conflict never ceases in any sphere.

Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoos... but we never saw his wife.

Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

Kill him, then hug him. Men are more faithful when dead.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy