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Quotes About Contradiction

I hate her and i love her. don't ask me why. it's the way i feel, that's all, and it hurts.
~ Catullus, Gaius Valerius
I hate and i love well, why do i, you probably ask i don't know, but i know it's happening and it hurts.
~ Catullus, Gaius Valerius
I hate and love. you ask, "how can this be?" god knows what wretchedness what loathsome misery
~ Catullus, Gaius Valerius
I hate and love. why i do so, perhaps you ask. i know not but I feel it, and i am in torment.
~ Catullus, Gaius Valerius
Swirling a glass of ice splashed with Scotch, the host seemed oblivious to the contradiction between what he'd just finished saying and what he was now showing me. After his second drink, he began to tell me about his failed marriage, to an American. "She insisted on riding around in my Rolls without covering her face. Of course, everyone stared at her," he said with distaste. After
~ Geraldine Brooks
But the pods also held the things people had created—the finest examples of the artistry and the ingenuity of our own species. How could we be so creative and so destructive at the same time?
~ Geraldine Brooks
Well, I have five brothers—Rest, Thankful, Watching, Patience, Consider—and each one of them the very opposite of their name.
~ Geraldine Brooks
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
~ Gertrude Stein
La natura è sleale, nella sua innocenza.
~ Gianni Rodari
Thanks to God, I'm an atheist.
~ Gianni Vattimo
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
But here we must consider that it is highly inconvenient to suppose the Supreme and Highest to be similar merely to a performer on the zither who cannot play in the absence of the instrument; thus would a Creator be unable to create because that which he is able to create cannot be created by him. This would lay down an obvious contradiction which cannot be overlooked save by the most ignorant.
~ Giordano Bruno
She just kept on criticizing me, but for contradictory reasons.
~ Giorgio Bassani
Of women he was as fond as dogs of the stick; but in the contrary he delighted more than any filthy fellow alive.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
dumheden hos disse mænd og den endnu større dumhed hos dem, der tror, at de er stærkere end naturen, og med eventyrlige argumenter bilder sig selv ind, at de formår, hvad de ikke formår, og ønsker at få andre til at handle ligesom dem selv, selvom det strider imod deres natur.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.
~ Glen Cook
My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.
~ Glen Cook
Parts of him were built to be awake before dawn and yearning to be both absolutely still and moving everywhere at once.
~ Glen David Gold
Moll is immoral, shallow, hypocritical, heartless, a bad woman: yet Moll is marvellous.
~ Glen Duncan
Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments.
~ Glen Duncan
God being dead, irony still rollickingly alive...
~ Glen Duncan
I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.
~ Glenn Gould
Not only was all this collaboration conducted with no transparency, but it contradicted public statements made by Skype. ACLU technology expert Chris Soghoian said the revelations would surprise many Skype customers. "In the past, Skype made affirmative promises to users about their inability to perform wiretaps," he said. "It's hard to square Microsoft's secret collaboration with the NSA with its high-profile efforts to compete on privacy with Google.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Deliberately and spiritedly doing the opposite of what it takes to get there yet you expect to get there. This is one of the true definitions of madness.
~ Goa Kerle