Quotes About Contradiction

Why is sholem used for both "hello" and "good-bye"? Israelis say: "Because we have so many problems that half the time we don't know whether we're coming or going.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

I can do a score of things that can't be done. I can find a thing I can't see, and I see a thing I can't find. The first is time, and the second is a spot before my eyes. I can feel a thing I cannot touch, and I touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, and the second is your heart. What would you do without me? Say "nothing".

In fact, to speak in earnest, I believe it adds a charm To spice the good a trifle with a little dust of harm

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate!—Do not wish me such an evil.

Emma - faultless, in spite of her faults

Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery.

You and I, Sir John, said Mrs. Jennings, should never stand upon such ceremony. Then you would be very ill-bred, cried Mr. Palmer. My love, you contradict every body, - said his wife with her usual laugh. Do you know that you are quite rude? I did not know I contradicted any body in calling your mother ill-bred.

That would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate!

but why he should say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable! How were people, at that rate, to be understood?

The horror of her incarceration in the Tower was a defining event Elizabeth could never forget. It made a passionate heart more circumspect, a complex nature more contradictory and a fine intelligence sharp as a blade.

A heroic society is almost a contradiction in terms.

If Meredith tries contradicting him, he laughs indulgently and pets her, stroking her arm or cheek as if she is a mischievous cat.

I didn't know how to tell him that I hadn't lost the instinct to survive and yet at the same time I didn't feel much need for self-preservation, that somehow there was a distinction between the two.

All those cows with the same pattern of black and white, all turning their heads at the same time, all mooing in unison (his first love was still cloning) and all feeling pregnant when they were not, didn't seem to be an image she could hold in her head along with the rest of what she knew about life.

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?

Love humiliates you, hatred cradles you.

She usually loved this band, but today their cheerfulness made her want to crash the car.