Quotes About Contradiction

I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

If everything is so bright, there will be no place for light.

Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway

Catlike. Certainly that was the word which best described Clare Kendry, if any single word could describe her. Sometimes she was hard and apparently without feeling at all; sometimes she was affectionate and rashly impulsive. And there was about her an amazing soft malice, hidden well away until provoked. Then she was capable of scratching, and very effectively too.

one of Jack's informative T-shirts: "Join The Army, See The World, Meet New People And Kill Them.

Brazil is very unpopular in Brazil.

tears' after he told her simply: 'It's all up.'26 Churchill was the exception. He told Violet Asquith on 22 February 1915: I think a curse should rest on me – because I love this war. I know it's smashing & shattering the lives of thousands every moment – & yet – I can't help it – I enjoy every second

paradoxically, the people who live in the world's safest country are also the world's most insured.

Yet the way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what is for what should be pursues his downfall rather than his preservation

a veces, lo que parece virtud es causa de ruina, y lo que parece vicio solo acaba por traer el bienestar y la seguridad.

It all made perfect sense, and at the same time, nothing seemed to make sense at all.

It made perfect sense, and at the same time nothing seemed to.

Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.

Para odiar algo, primero debes amarlo.

And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it.

I always told guys you don't date people you work with, it's not going to work. I said it for years and then I broke my own motto.

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.

If I don't get enough attention, I want more attention. If I have too much attention, I want it to stop. It is not always easy to understand myself.

The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

I fully embrace myself as a hypocrite.