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Quotes About Contradiction

My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.
~ Skeet Ulrich
I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.
~ Keren Ann
Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.
~ Matthieu Ricard
K.C. and the Bay Area are opposites.
~ Billy Butler
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
~ Woody Allen
To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.
~ Armando Iannucci
I'm so optimistic, it's depressing.
~ Lindsay Wagner
I am pessimistically optimistic.
~ Anna Madeley
When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
~ Bob Hope
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
~ Gertrude Stein
Our music contradicts our look.
~ Benji Madden
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
~ Blaise Pascal
There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
Just when you've squared up to the solemn realisation that life is a bitch, it turns round and does something nice, just to confuse you. - Emily Spitzer, The Better Mousetrap
~ Tom Holt
If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid - but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.
~ Tom Robbins
I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.
~ Tom Waits
To tylko kwestia s?ów. Nawet m?dro?? mo?na nazwa? g?upot?, a g?upot? m?dro?ci?.
~ Unknown
I'm against the death penalty. I believe that it is a mistake to show that killing people is wrong by killing people. However I'm not against the random killing of people who snore.
~ Unknown
The goal of the poem is not to conceal uncertainty and to deliver an airtight argument, or proclamation, or insight, not to arrive at some truth, but rather to display the nature of the speaker's "real-time" sensibility, including its tendency toward indecisiveness and self-contradiction.
~ Tony Hoagland
Truthful hyperbole' is a contradiction in terms. It's a way of saying, 'It's a lie, but who cares?' 
~ Unknown
When it's all said and done we will lose a piece to a carnivorous vegetarian.
~ Tori Amos
Love is hate War is Peace No is Yes And we're all free.
~ Tracy Chapman
My point is, it's not cut and dried, black and white, good and bad. It lives where everything lives: somewhere in the middle. Where everything lives, where all the rest of us live, everyone but you.
~ Tracy Letts