Quotes About Contradiction

In balancing each desired goal with the contradiction contained therein, we cause our thought to be re-born at the very point from which all creation manifests.

The resulting materialization of balanced visualization is often neither the initial desire nor the contradiction contained within, but instead a surpassing of the two.

A helpful technique to assist you in discovering the contradiction contained in your desired goal is to use the following formula: When does (positive) appear to be (negative)?

Elles portent le hijab le plus sévère et parviennent à se prostituer sans montrer la plus infime parcelle de leur corps. Du grand art!

I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And the victim and the executioner! I am the vampire of my own heart.

A woman is natural: that is to say, abominable.

I am the wound and the knife!I am the blow and the cheek!I am the limbs and the wheel—The victim and the executioner!

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Nails can be varnished, But they also claw. (Ongles peuvent être vernis, - Mais ils griffent aussi.)

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

I tell you what, Mr. Fledgeby,' said Lammle, advancing on him. 'Since you presume to contradict me, I'll assert myself a little. Give me your nose!' Fledgeby covered it with his hand instead, and said, retreating, 'I beg you won't!' ... 'Say no more, say no more!' Mr. Lammle repeated in a magnificent tone. 'Give me your'--Fledgeby started-- 'hand.

I am unfortunate in using a word which may convey a meaning—and evidently does—quite opposite to my intention.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way— in

Yes, sir!' from one half. 'No, sir!' from the other. 'Of

Richard and I looked at one another again. It was a most singular thing that the arrest was our embarrassment and not Mr. Skimpole's. He observed us with a genial interest, but there seemed, if I may venture on such a contradiction, nothing selfish in it. He had entirely washed his hands of the difficulty, and it had become ours.

Why I hoarded up this last wretched little rag of hope that was rent and given to the winds, how do I know! Why did you who read this , commit that not dissimilar inconsistency of your own, last year, last month, last week?

But Physician was a composed man, who performed neither on his own trumpet, nor on the trumpets of other people. Many wonderful things did he see and hear, and much irreconcilable moral contradiction did he pass his life among; yet his equality of compassion was no more disturbed than the Divine Master's of all healing was. He went, like the rain, among the just and unjust, doing all the good he could, and neither proclaiming it in the synagogues nor at the corner of streets.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Thank you paper clips, for being like staples that can't commit.

Everything I eat has been proved by some writer or other to be a deadly poison. Everything I don't eat has been proved indispensable to life!

Reason. If you follow it far enough, it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

I'm a babe magnet — but the wrong end.