Quotes About Contradiction

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15 000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

Is it always "or"? Is it never "and"? —STEPHEN SONDHEIM, INTO THE WOODS Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) —WALT WHITMAN, "SONG OF MYSELF

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

Life, I'd heard someone say, is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. It seemed to me that it was both at once, even for those of us who don't do much of either.

I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking

Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded.

Always, even on a solemn occasion like this, an undercurrent of laughter in her voice. She possessed a keen sense of the fundamental absurdity of life.

a thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer then the truth

Physics out of quantum equilibrium contains several surprises. One is that it becomes possible to send information faster than light. This is a consequence of another result of Valentini's, which tells us that while the system is out of quantum equilibrium, information and energy can be sent instantaneously, contradicting special relativity.

It's lovely. I hate it.

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Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in. Lazarus obeying orders and climbing up out of the grave - now there's a miracle, and you can bet it upset a lot of folks who were standing around at the time. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of the earth.

Every story is true and a lie. The true part of this one is: Love and the memory of love can't be drowned. The lie part is that this is a good thing.

I remember he was asking me for advice and I was giving it to him. He's always done the exact opposite of what I've said, which I think is fundamentally sound.

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

One of the most troublesome things in life is that what you do or do not want has very little to do with what does or does not happen.

Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey!

In a manner of speaking," I said, using one of my favorite ways of saying "No, you are wrong.

People aren't either wicked or noble," the hook-handed man said. "They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

How could someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

Love, it seems, fits perfectly into no one of these molds for it may be all at once; a state of ecstasy, a state of joy, a state of disillusionment, a rational state or an irrational state

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.