Quotes About Contradiction

Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.

I love sprinting, but I hate long-distance running. Isn't that funny?

As a senator, Obama denounced the Big Brother provisions of Bush's post-9/11 Patriot Act, particularly its sections enabling the state to spy on Americans without their knowledge. After taking power, Obama acquired his other face. That face speaks far less, but when it does, it justifies Bush's policies.

If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.

There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.

This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

I like the idea of being the funny guy in the dramatic thing, playing a hit man with a weird sense of humor.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.