Quotes About Contradiction

She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.

Watch closely, folks, here it is: Science, the ugly little beast that devours itself!)

humans will always act to preserve their own lives—except for the times when they don't.

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.

What runs so contrary to received wisdom is that it really is the male who is the aesthete while the woman is drawn to abstractions.

Aki felismeri a végzetét s mégis az ellenkezÅ' irányt választja végül éppúgy ugyanoda ér s éppúgy számot kell adnia ugyanabban a szabott órában mert minden ember sorsa és végzete éppen akkora amekkora a világ melyben lakozik és amelyben minden ellentét egyaránt benne foglaltatik.

Death is not a lover. Oh yes he is.

I was a born classicist and my heroes were never saints but killers.

Beauty and fear make uneasy companions

Love didn't deserve the nice reputation it had.

But his heart, strangely enough, told him something else.

The hate he felt still tasted like love, but that didn't tame it.

The hate he felt still tasted like love, but that didn't tame it.

Cielo, l'amore era un tormento. Chiunque avesse affermato il contrario non doveva aver mai provato quel maledetto fremito nel petto.

The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies. Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.